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...published Thursday in Science. Based on a series of expeditions to the margins of the Arctic Ocean by ship and helicopter, University of Alaska researcher Natalia Shakhova and her colleagues report that methane, a greenhouse gas that is 30 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, is bubbling up from the continental shelf and leaking into the atmosphere. The estimated total: 8 teragrams - that's 8 trillion grams - per year. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Warming Worries: Methane from the Arctic | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...China is a poor country with nothing comparable to the tremendous research, industrial and economic resources that the U.S. has been blessed with. Yet they're blowing us away ... The low-carbon era is coming. We can be dragged into that newer, greener world by leading countries like China; or we can take up the challenge and become the world's leader ourselves." --2/13/10...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...first new nuclear project to be green-lighted in the U.S. since the 1980s. Once online, sometime in 2017, the reactors will generate power for 1.4 million people. While most hailed the move--the White House said the reactors will prevent the emission of 16 million tons of carbon dioxide each year--critics say safety standards for storing the plant's radioactive waste need to be improved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...Literally within a matter of minutes, the level of carbon monoxide was found well below any threshold of concern,” Palfrey said...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gas Leak Evacuates Adams House Residents | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...investigation will take place today to confirm the exact source of carbon monoxide and the cause of the leak...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gas Leak Evacuates Adams House Residents | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

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