Accustomed as we are to the politics of paralysis in Washington, D.C., it is refreshing and inspiring to know that some English-speaking politicians have done …

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” In Alberta, Canada, news coverage of …

There may be winners as well as losers in a changed natural world. Climate change models project greater average temperature increases in polar …

Yesterday, it was 105 degrees in Dallas, and I was outside doing errands.  The heat burned the skin and pressed on the chest, and going …