American Prairie Reserve Announces the 'Ken Burns American Heritage' Prize
The documentary filmmaker is teaming up with the privately funded conservation group.
Energy & Environment
Happy Earth Day: A Reprise of Failed Doom
A trip down memory lane of failed Earth Day predictions past.
Need a Breather Before May Sweeps? Here, Have a Baby Elephant
Nature documentary highlights the rough childhoods of pachyderms.
Earth Day: U.S. and 170 Countries Sign Paris Climate Agreement: New at Reason
Saving the planet or just massively expanding activist and bureaucratic power?
Earth Day 2016: Paris Climate Agreement Signed
Too weak or a giant bureaucratic threat to democracy?
Ronald Bailey on Climate Change Panel at Earth Day Texas in Dallas
Current EPA General Counsel Avi Garbow shares platform and discussion is moderated by Teri Donaldson of DLA Piper.
Climate Change Has Made U.S. Weather More Pleasant, Says Nature Study
Most Americans live in counties that are experiencing more pleasant weather than they did forty years ago
Glyphosate Found in Some Cereals: Alarmists Generate Useless Panic
Another bogus scaremongering study by anti-technology activists
Sanders Called Out for His Incoherent "War on Clean Energy" by the Washington Post
Trolling for votes by pandering to environmental fundamentalists
Runaway Farm Subsidies and Diet Guideline Fights: Federal Food Policy Is a Mess
Two recent examples illustrate deep and broad problems.
Bill Nye, "Science Guy," Open to Jail Time for Climate Change Skeptics
"There is a chilling effect on scientists who are in extreme doubt about climate change, I think that is good."
There Are Better Ways to Handle Unwanted Animals Than Through Government
Private, market-based solutions less likely to end with the killing of animals.
Would President Trump Be Bound by the Paris Climate Agreement?
President Obama will officially sign Paris Climate Agreement on Earth Day.
Are State Attorneys General Attacking Climate Change Critics Engaging in a Conspiracy?
Glenn Reynolds, the law professor behind Instapundit.com thinks so.
March 2016 the Third Warmest Ever Month in Satellite Record: Global Temperature Trend Update
Will fading El Nino cool the globe down later this year?
Free Speech Attack by Attorneys General in ExxonMobil Climate Change Probe of Skeptical Non-Profit
Down the perilous path toward Lysenkoism in which only officially approved science is allowed
Ronald Bailey Speaking at Florida Gulf Coast University on Saturday
Students for Liberty Conference on Free Market Environmentalism
Washington DC Washed Away by 2100 by Melting Antarctic Ice Cap?
Actually, no. The Capitol is in no danger.
Use Property Rights to Save Fisheries Around the Globe, Says New Study
Anything you think of as an environmental problem is occurring in an open-access commons.
Climate Campaigner Bill McKibben's Misleading Anti-Fracking Crusade
"We closed coal plants and opened methane leaks, and the result is that things have gotten worse."
The Case of the Catfish Cartel
Why Mississippi's catfish industry asked the government to regulate it more tightly
Meters of Sea Level Rise and MegaBoulder-Heaving Superstorms Thanks to Global Warming
Also carbon emissions rate highest in 66 million years
A U.S. Department of the Future Is a Really Bad Idea
Unfortunately, there is no shortage of would-be Secretaries of the Future.
Professor Defends Absurd Feminist Ice Study: 'The Good News Is People Are Talking About Glaciers!'
The bad news is taxpayers funded the study.
Assume 6 Feet of Sea Level Rise: Predict Catastrophe
Useful science or worst case scaremongering?
CRISPR Critters: Regulators and the New Gene Revolution in Agriculture
More, better, and safer food - but only if regulators will stay out of the way.
CRISPR Critters and the New Gene Revolution in Agriculture: New at Reason
"We are now at the dawn of the gene-editing age."
What Is Congress Hiding?
Legislators smuggled all kinds of questionable provisions into a last-minute, $1.1 trillion spending bill
Sanders and Clinton Both Against Fracking: Flint Democratic Debate
The candidates are either ignorant or pandering
Partisan Divide Over Global Warming Is Just a Big Misunderstanding, Says Study: New at Reason
There are good reasons to doubt that conclusion.
February Hottest Month Ever in the Satellite Temperature Record: Global Temperature Trend Update
Will February's warmth stand out as a singular spike or be part of an ongoing trend?
How Commerce, Not the Feds, Saved the Alligator
Hunting can do more good than the Endangered Species Act.
A New Central Plan for the Climate
Representatives of 195 countries hammer out an emissions accord in Paris.
Banning GMOs Would Hurt Nature
Farmers would have to plow down an area roughly equal to Connecticut.
Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar Climate Change Grandstand
Climate change is not biggest problem facing indigenous and underprivileged people.
Global Warming Hiatus Is Real
The rate of temperature increase has been dramatically slower than predicted, says Nature Climate Change.
20th Century Sea Level Rise Fastest in 2,800 Years
Coastal flooding made worse by sea level rise linked to rising average temperatures
Bill Gates Expects an 'Energy Miracle' in Next 15 Years
"World will discover a clean energy breakthrough that will save our planet and power our world."
Tesla's Direct Sales Battle Comes to Connecticut
The electric car company might achieve victory in another state but the win should not be limited just to Tesla.
Oil Output Freeze by Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Qatar: So What?
Would-be oil cartelizers will fail in the long run
Donald Trump on Science
Comparing his scores on seven science policy topics to Cruz, Rubio, and Bush
Global Warming Fund a Slush Fund for World's Dictators
Third World tyrants salivate at the prospect of largesse from the green climate fund.
Obama's Carbon Rationing Clean Power Plan Stayed by Supreme Court
Greenhouse gas regulations will now be an even bigger issue in the U.S. presidential campaign
How Ted Cruz Defeated Iowa's Ethanol Cartel
His strategy wasn't lovely, but it was a blow to crony capitalism.
Apocalyptic Warnings About 'Water Wars' Too Pessimistic, Too Premature
Freshwater reserves are falling but access to drinking water is up.
