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Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon's Complicated River Ride Researchers recently found that carbon moves from the atmosphere, through trees, soil and water, and back into the atmosphere in fewer than five years, indicating that the landscape is not providing as much long-term storage of carbon dioxide as hoped.
Geotimes April 2006 Naomi Lubick	Faith-Based Carbon Credit Systems Market-based approaches to help stem carbon releases, and in turn climate change, could prove difficult to marshal and enforce. Carbon credits and trade incentives are a small piece in a larger issue.
Popular Mechanics June 12, 2009 Jerry Beilinson	Climate Change Solutions: Live From World Science Festival 2009 The roundtable session, called "Carbon Conundrum," took place in front of an audience of about 150 on day two of the World Science Festival.
Chemistry World February 2007 Helen Pilcher	Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick	Soaking up Carbon Researchers recently announced that they had created metal-based sponges that have exceptionally high capacity for storing carbon dioxide. This nanotechnology is one of many new solutions in the search to find a fix for storing human-emitted carbon-based greenhouse gases.
Wired May 19, 2008 Matt Power	Old-Growth Forests Can Actually Contribute to Global Warming Forests actually give up more carbon from decomposing wood than they lock down in new growth.
Geotimes September 2003 Greg Peterson	Weathering climate change Policy-makers looking to curb future increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, could turn to a simple plan: Plant trees.
Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Wallace Broecker: Changes in the Atmosphere An interview with an expert on issues of climate change about his experiences advising politicians about the consequences of climate change and his hopes for new technologies of carbon sequestration.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Sandra Upson	Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 William B. Gail	Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there.
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 William Sweet	What to Expect From the Copenhagen Climate Confab Success or at least a perception of success may be critical, but how is success to be measured?
IEEE Spectrum August 2010 Paul McFedries	Technically Speaking: Hacking the Planet There's plenty of controversy swirling around the idea of climate intervention -- and no shortage of new words
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 Stuart Biggs	New Zealand Farmers Harvest Carbon Credits Growing trees can be more profitable than raising sheep.
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick	Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community.
Wired June 23, 2008 Chris Mooney	Can a Million Tons of Sulfur Dioxide Combat Climate Change? Geoengineering may be the necessary step to save our planet.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Susan Arterian Chang	Carbon Commerce The Europeans have demonstrated beyond doubt that the right to emit CO2 is destined to be a major internationally traded asset -- but their experience to date also exemplifies some of the pitfalls the rest of the world faces in establishing such trading systems.
Salon.com January 26, 2001 Dawn MacKeen	Overwhelming evidence of global warming Experts hope a startling new report will be enough to persuade President Bush to take action...
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 Laura Cohn	What Price Pollution? In Europe, the Kyoto Protocol is spurring a brisk market in emission credits. Under the program, banks and exchanges are preparing to service some 12,000 industrial installations across the EU.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Paul McFedries	Changing Climate, Changing Language That humans are having a negative effect on the world's climate is almost universally regarded as a fact in scientific circles, but global warming stubbornly remains in the realm of fantasy in some political and business circles.
Chemistry World February 8, 2010 Rebecca Renner	Coming clean on emissions outsourcing Industrialized countries 'outsource' a large proportion of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with manufacturing the items they consume, according to a new study that, for the first time, details this outsourcing on a global basis.
Reason October 2005 Sallie Baliunas	Full of Hot Air Book review: A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity" in Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert the Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan.
BusinessWeek August 16, 2004 John Carey	Global Warming Consensus is growing among scientists, governments, and business that they must act fast to combat climate change. This has already sparked efforts to limit CO2 emissions. Many companies are now preparing for a carbon-constrained world.
Geotimes April 2005 Michael Glantz	What Makes Good Climates Go Bad? Climates are constantly changing in both linear and nonlinear ways and over the course of life on Earth, organisms have either adjusted to those changes or perished.
Popular Mechanics June 5, 2008 Bijal Trivedi	Hacking Earth Against Warming, Scientists Favor Fake Volcanoes As the Senate debates a controversial climate-change bill, meteorologists and economists alike say geoengineering solutions aren't so far-out anymore.
Wired May 19, 2008 Spencer Reiss	Carbon Credits Were a Great Idea, But the Benefits Are Illusory Carbon offsets -- and emissions-trading schemes, their industrial-scale siblings -- are the environmental version of subprime mortgages.
Scientific American February 2007 Jeffrey Sachs	Moving beyond Kyoto To seriously address the issue of global climate change, policymakers need to establish a framework that extends through the end of the century
PC Magazine March 17, 2008 Isabelle Groc	Giving Back to the Friendly Skies Carbon offsets can be a good way to reduce your traveling carbon footprint, but be wary of green scams.
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Greenhouse Gases Revisited Scientists say now that a new method of tracking the effects of greenhouse gases could lead to a more accurate understanding of their impact on climate change, which other scientists say the Arctic is already experiencing on a dramatic scale.
Geotimes December 2005 Kevin E. Trenberth	A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing.
Popular Mechanics December 12, 2008 Melinda Wenner	U.N. Puts Greenhouse-Free Clean Coal on the Back Burner U.N. plans to sign a new international climate treaty next year, and in negotiating recommendations delegates found common ground in many areas.
BusinessWeek December 9, 2009 Elgin & Einhorn	China: Climate Change or Hot Air? The mainland earns billions in carbon-offset sales. But by taking credit for projects that would have been built anyway, it may not be playing by the rules.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Peter Fairley	Europe Looks to North America's Forests to Meet Renewable Energy Goals Emissions reductions, however, may prove smaller and slower than once expected
Salon.com November 28, 2000 Fiona Morgan	Europe to U.S.: No deal on global warming A meeting in The Hague to negotiate reducing greenhouse gas emissions collapses without a deal -- but the world's still getting hotter...
Geotimes December 2006 Fred Schwab	Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
BusinessWeek May 28, 2009 Mark Scott	Banks: Gearing Up for Carbon Trading While the federal plan to trade carbon emission credits are a ways off, banks already are preparing for what they see as a new profit.
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Ben Elgin	A Big Loophole in Cap and Trade How companies may be rewarded under the cap-and-trade system for green projects they already had in the works.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Trading on Climate Change Markets for emissions credits are starting to take root. As more of the Kyoto Protocol's provisions take effect, trading in these markets will likely accelerate, and emerging-market projects designed to take advantage of that trading will continue to provide opportunities for global investors.
The Motley Fool July 9, 2008 Zoe Van Schyndel	Turn Smog Into Money This new exchange-traded investment lets you profit from carbon credits.
CFO January 1, 2008 John Goff	Carbon Trading The carbon offset market is set to take off. But at this point, the future worth of a carbon commodity is tough to call. Could U.S. businesses end up buying a lot of hot air?
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick	Heat Imbalance Portends Problems Results from a new assessment show that Earth is absorbing more energy than it releases into space, with implications for climate change that researchers say point to future warming with consequences for melting ice sheets and sea-level rise.
Fast Company November 2000 Ian Wylie	'We Recycle Your Air.' Social entrepreneur Dan Morrell is targetting a massive and complex environmental problem: global warming. But his solution is deceptively simple: The way to save the planet is one tree at a time...
Chemistry World July 21, 2009 Anna Lewcock	Degrees of freedom The global nature of the climate change offers both opportunities and challenges. The US, for example, is keen to establish international cooperation and collaboration in climate change research
Scientific American June 2009 Madhusree Mukerjee	Is a Popular Carbon-Offset Method Just a Lot of Hot Air? A popular carbon-offset scheme may do little to cut emissions.
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Plant Methane Surprises Climate Scientists Atmospheric scientists have long blamed cattle and microbes for the production of significant amounts of methane on Earth. But the discovery of a new large source of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, is putting trees on the hot seat.
Finance & Development December 2009 Bjorn Lomborg	Technology, Not Talks, Will Save the Planet There are smarter alternatives to fighting climate change than cutting CO 2 emissions.
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon Leaching Out of Siberian Peat New research is showing that as temperatures rise across the Arctic, carbon once locked up in permafrost soils may begin escaping into the area's waterways.
Wired May 19, 2008 Alex Steffen	Counterpoint: Dangers of Focusing Solely on Climate Change To have any hope of staving off collapse, we need to move forward with measures that address many interrelated problems and not just focus on carbon.
Geotimes September 2006 Lee Gerhard	Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change.
Finance & Development December 2009 Hamilton & Fay	A Changing Climate for Development Climate finance can provide the resources developing countries need to mitigate and adapt
Geotimes February 2005 Megan Sever	Bugging Out with Warmer Weather If Earth continues to warm, especially in northern latitudes, insect outbreaks are more likely to occur, and potentially harm forests and affect the planet's carbon cycle.