global warming

Maryland congressman's innovative plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but shield average Americans from higher energy prices deserves serious consideration

While many of her friends spent the summer swimming or going to amusement parks, 11-year-old Asley Ventura, of Laurel, had fun participating in a space camp at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.

Plagiarism is charged too often and to no good end. The rules are more strict because of the technology that itself is disseminated and at times created by plagiarism.

Economists should be bound by facts and reason. I simply can't embrace liberal positions on the minimum wage, climate change and gender discrimination, and call myself a scientist.

The signs of climate change are "blinking red," whether we choose to see them or not.

New bipartisan report finds risk of climate change is a major threat to U.S. employers and future economic growth

The failure to act on global warming is a failure of the imagination to comprehend the calamity we now face, Leonard Pitts writes.

The project could introduce the first "ecodistrict" to Baltimore, creating a zone with a set of common environmental goals and infrastructure systems to help meet the targets.

To address climate change without expanding government, tax carbon and let the free market determine the best strategy

Capping carbon emissions

There are many other benefits to Marylanders from reducing our dependence on coal-fired power plants that we need to fully understand so that we can enthusiastically support new measures to reduce carbon emissions and speed up their adoption.

Maryland stands to benefit from EPA rules to reduce carbon emissions from power plants

New EPA standards are vital to the bay's future health

Most of us are not experts on climate science, but unlike the GOP, most of us have the good sense to listen to those who are.

Obama administration unveils a climate change plan already demonstrated to work by Maryland and other states with cap-and-trade

There have been a lot of efforts to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay. Those efforts are noble. But they're not enough. It's beyond time to get serious about doing something. The time for studying is over. It's time for action.

There have been a lot of efforts to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay. Those efforts are noble. But they're not enough. It's beyond time to get serious about doing something. The time for studying is over. It's time for action.

In the United States, weathercasters serve as our goofy national soothsayers, but they should sober up and start talking about climate change.

A proposed natural gas liquefaction and export facility in Southern Maryland poses no significant risks to people or the environment, federal energy regulators declared Thursday, though they called for dozens of additional steps to minimize risks from the controversial project.

The scientific consensus on whether or not human beings are causing global climate change is largely settled – we are causing it.

The dam provides clean energy through hydro-powered turbines, preventing 6.5 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year.

Latest climate change report underscores what Baltimore residents already know — severe weather is taxing America's aging infrastructure as global warming worsens

It makes more economic sense to fight climate change than to ignore it.

Choice to temporarily defer a decision on controversial oil pipeline is a sensible one, albeit politically convenient for the White House

A theoretical inconvenience to Pax River radar testing should not trump a $200 million Eastern Shore wind power facility

UN panel's latest report makes clear that global warming can be addressed at a reasonable cost — but only if action is taken soon

A total of 13,338 people rode MARC trains along the Penn Line this weekend, setting a record for the new service as many made their way to Washington for cherry blossom celebrations.

When are we going to get serious about climate change?

The Cove Point LNG export plan must be stopped.

Wind turbines and clean energy offer Maryland a better future

Latest United Nations report details more widespread dangers of climate change that governments and business are ill-prepared to address

More of Maryland's leaders need to join Sen. Ben Cardin in speaking out on global warming.

Better to take climate change out of the courts and into the hands of the free market

Rising carbon dioxide levels are reason for serious concern

Massive windmills that could dot the horizon from Ocean City within a few years could affect more than the power grid -- they could offer some protection from hurricanes, a study has found.