The mythical elixir peddled by the coal industry to solve our climate woes, carbon capture and storage, may yet become a reality. The International Energy Agency issued a report today saying a massive CCS build-out will be necessary to cut emissions.

Large-scale electric-car adoption is widely seen as a green way to clean up the world's auto emissions problem and cut global warming gases. But will it work everywhere? How about in a dirty energy place where 90 percent of the electricity is fossil fuel?

A group of young climate activists bicycled across the country, gathering hundreds of stories from American cities and towns about sustainability, climate change, energy and the future of life in America. Now they're talking to Congress.

The Caribbean's vibrant coral reefs could be in for another devastating year as the world's oceans experience some of their warmest surface temperatures on record, scientists warn.

To get a truly effective national climate law, here are eight key ways the bill that reaches the president's desk must be stronger than the one that came from the U.S. House.

If Mother Nature were handing out grades, she'd have a difficult time assigning one to the climate dissertation known as Waxman-Markey, approved by the House and now being considered by the Senate.

Over the past week, federal regulators have begun to tighten environmental rules for mining operations. They're taking steps in the right direction, environmental advocates say, but only baby steps - much more is needed.

It is still feasible to solve the global warming problem before we pass tipping points that would guarantee disastrous irreversible climate change. But urgent strong actions are needed. A look at the science and desperate need for political willpower.

While the industrialized world is struggling to cut its emissions and gearing up to negotiate a new international climate treaty, it is simultaneously bankrolling the construction of thousands upon thousands of megawatts of new polluting power.