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Arctic Sea Ice Drops To Near Record Levels

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More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic is happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted to its second lowest level since satellite observations began. More Details

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Boxer Calls For EPA Chief's Resignation

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D - California) called Tuesday for the resignation of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson, and for the Department of Justice to investigate whether he lied to Congress. More Details

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Alison Burns Reports On Barbara Boxer's Call For EPA Chief's Resignation, DOJ Investigation

REDWOOD CITY: Ken Wayne Reports On $4.99 Gas And The Politics Of Oil Addiction

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GM, Utilities Join To Study Electric Car Impact

General Motors Corp. has joined with more than 30 utility companies across the U.S. to help work out electricity issues that will crop up when it rolls out new electric vehicles in a little more than two years. More Details

SLIDESHOW: New Plug-In Electric Vehicles Sweep Into San Jose

Gore: Go Carbon-Free 'Within Ten Years'

Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace. More Details

BART's Orinda Station Goes Solar

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Bay Area Rapid Transit District directors voted unanimously Thursday to have solar panels installed at the Orinda station in a program that's projected to save riders and taxpayers $3.4 million over 20 years. More Details

SF Mayor Signs Solar Incentive Program For Residents, Businesses Into Law

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MARIN FAIR: Red, White, Blue And Green

FLOATOVOLTAIC: Napa Winery Far Niente Goes All Solar

Drought Worries Renewing Call For Water Conservation

Sparse Snowpack Triggers Water Worries

Schwarzenegger Joins 17 States In Climate Fight

Bush Revises Strategy On Curbing Greenhouse Gases

Gore Announces 3-Year Campaign Against Global Warming

Lights Go Out On SF Landmarks

California Lowers Target For Zero-Emission Vehicles

Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses In Runaway Disintegration

Study: Warming Threatens Tahoe Ecosystem, Clarity

EPA Turns Over Redacted Documents In Greenhouse Case

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Feds: Wind Farms Can Generate More Power

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Wind farms could generate as much as 7 percent of U.S. electricity in 15 years, but scientists want to spend more time studying the threat those spinning blades pose to birds and bats. More Details

Brown Talks Tough With Automakers Over Emissions

California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Thursday he will pursue a lawsuit against the six largest U.S. and Japanese automakers in which the state seeks millions of dollars in damages caused by vehicle emissions of greenhouse gases. More Details

UC Berkeley Unveils $500 Million Clean Fuel Research Effort

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, will team with colleagues in Illinois in a national search for new, clean sources of energy, backed by $500 million from oil company BP. More Details

Virginia Solar Home Getting High Marks

State Sen. Frank Wagner is staying warm at his temporary address, even in below-freezing weather and without a traditional power supply or fireplace. More Details

Silicon Valley Emerges A Solar Technology Leader

Solar Sailors Soon To Sail The Bay

State Utilities May Be Barred From Buying Dirty Power

SF Tidal Power Plan Faces Major Obstacle

Heavenly Valley To Be Powered By The Wind

SF Mayor Proposes Harnessing Bay Tides

Firm Proposes To Build World's Largest Solar Cell Factory

Large Windmill Farm Proposed For Santa Barbara

LA Officials Vote For Plan To Buy Wind-Generated Power

Quest For Energy Alternatives Heats Up

Industry Leaders High On Wind Power

Bush Pitches Plan to Expand Nuclear Power

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Climate Talks Resume In Ghana

Negotiators meet here this week to resume work on a new climate change treaty and discuss ways to prod developing countries to join the fight against global warming. More Details

Experts Say Climate Change Could Transform California

As California begins to grapple with the effects of a warming climate, scientists are trying to forecast how the nation's most geographically diverse state might change in the decades to come. What they envision is a landscape that could look quite different by the end of the century, if not sooner. More Details

UN Panel Warns Of Human Suffering, Species Extinction Due To Climate Change

The Earth is hurtling toward a warmer climate at a quickening pace, a Nobel-winning U.N. scientific panel said in a landmark report released Saturday, warning of inevitable human suffering and the threat of extinction for some species. More Details

A Summary Of Findings In The Latest IPCC Report

Presidents, Premiers, Schwarzenegger And Gore To Convene At U.N. Climate Summit

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Gore and the leaders of some 80 nations converge on the U.N. on Monday for a summit on the warming Earth and what to do about it. More Details

Chevron Refinery's Flares Still Polluting, Report Says

Air District's $1.5M Grant To Reduce Bay Area's Carbon Footprint

APEC Leaders Forge Deal On Climate Change

Ski Industry Goes Green To Fight Warming

Feds Looks At Climate Impact On Animals

Western Governors Target Global Warming

GM, Others Encourage NASCAR To Go Green

Experts: Alps Glaciers Will Melt by 2050

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You've heard a lot about your carbon footprint, but what is exactly is it and how can you reduce it. Waste Management has joined with KTVU Channel 2 to give you and your family a unique way to be good to the environment. Click for more information. More Details

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Of Lilacs And Coal Mines

Few harbingers of impending doom more dramatically illustrate the dependence on—and disregard for—nature by humanity than the canaries brought into coal mines to ensure clean air for the miners inside. To extend the allegory: if the globe is a coal mine, then, according to a UC Irvine study out today, lilacs are the canaries of the Earth. More Details

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Global Warming Causes Antarctic Breakaway

NASA scientists say warm waters contributed to the breakaway of a massive iceberg from Antarctica. See the NASA's dramatic images of iceberg B-15a -- as large as the Manhattan -- break away and then crash back into from Anarctica. More Details

Going, Going, Almost Gone -- Lake Chad

Once Lake Chad was the world's sixth largest lake. But presistent drought has shrunk it down to just a tenth of its forner size. In this visualization, NASA details the amazing loss of this natural wonder. More Details

NASA Video: Climate Changes Shrink Lake Chad

Rising Tides -- Rising Sea Levels Present Major Threat

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