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Investment-research firm KLD Research & Analytics launched a climate-change index in 2005. This year the big investment banks have piled in, too. JP Morgan introduced an index in February comprised of bonds from firms with limited vulnerability to global warming. ABN Amro launched a Climate Change and Environment Index...
"It is absurd to fly back and forth like that. Symbolically, it sends out the wrong signal," said Jorgo Riss, director of Greenpeace E.U. "In this day and age they could have come up with something more imaginative. They could have held a virtual signing ceremony, over the Internet, which...
It stings when you stick your hand in a nest of fire ants. This nugget of wisdom—and other lessons for aspiring naturalists—were on display at last night’s showing of a documentary about two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor Edward O...
Though small in scale—if approved, the department plans to admit just three students in the fall of 2009—the proposed graduate program will benefit both undergraduates and faculty enormously. Despite frequent complaints about teaching fellows dominating undergraduate pedagogy, the presence of graduate students actually enriches...
Does population size matter? Observers note that while China has been fairly vocal at Bali, the other rising emitter - India - has been quiet thus far. That may change when high-level environment ministers show up starting Dec. 12, but it could be indicative of a hardening negotiating position. More so...