Environment

Earth Is Cooling, Sea Levels Not Rising, Scientists Say

As the U.S. Senate prepares to consider enormously expensive cap-and-trade legislation, supposedly aimed at curbing alleged global warming caused by man-made emissions, scientists...

William F. Jasper May 20, 2010

What’s the Problem with the Gulf Oil Leak?

Rebecca Terrell May 14, 2010

Industry and government officials continue their desperate efforts to contain an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that began on April 20...

Gulf Oil-leak Efforts Continue

Rebecca Terrell May 11, 2010

Three weeks after the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, the response team is still working to contain three leaks spewing oil into the...

Gulf Oil Spill Opportunists

Rebecca Terrell May 7, 2010

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are scrambling to parlay the tragic Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion and ongoing leak into a significant increase...

EPA Offers Cash for Propaganda

Alex Newman April 28, 2010

The Environmental Protection Agency is offering thousands of taxpayer dollars and free publicity to whoever produces the most compelling pro-government-regulation propaganda, it announced...

Vatican Supports Adult Stem-cell Research

Mary McHugh April 26, 2010

The Vatican will help fund a research study into the potential use of adult stem cells to treat intestinal and possibly other diseases,...

The CFL Bulb Is Not Environmentally Friendly

William F. Jasper April 24, 2010

For millions of environmental activists the Compact Fuorescent Light bulb (CFL) has become a popular mascot rivaling the World Wildlife Fund's panda bear...

Have You Hugged Your Planet Today?

James Heiser April 22, 2010

Be nice to the tree huggers today: It has been a rough year for the jolly green juggernaut since the last Earth...

International Conference of Scientists to Challenge Global-warming Alarmism

William F. Jasper April 9, 2010

The Heartland Institute's fourth International Conference on Climate Change is scheduled to take place in Chicago May 16-18 and will feature more than...

EPA Increases Automobile Costs While Seizing Legislative Power

James Heiser April 9, 2010

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson attracted international attention when, having apparently become bored waiting for the messy process of representative government to...

Arctic Ice Expanding, Not Retreating

James Heiser April 8, 2010

At last December’s UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, former Vice President Al Gore shrilly proclaimed that “The entire polar ice cap ......

Senators Question Flawed NASA Climate Data

Alex Newman April 5, 2010

According to NASA, its own temperature data is more flawed than the temperature data from the University of East Anglia, the British institution...

Global-warming Alarmism Dying a Slow Death

Alex Newman March 30, 2010

Last December in Copenhagen at the United Nations climate summit, officials and global-warming alarmists seemed confident of their imminent triumph. “There is no...