Global Warming

The global combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average, according to NOAA, the hottest in 142 years of record-keeping.

It’s a frequently shared adage in publishing that only 3 percent of the books published in the United States are translations from books originally…

In his book “Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming,” author and freelance journalist McKenzie Funk moves the conversation on climate change…

Randall Hyman is a St. Louis-based photojournalist and writer. For more than three decades, he has traveled the globe covering cultural and environmental…

There is a consensus among scientists that global warming is occurring, and the increase in temperature is man-made. The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on…

Missouri's coal-fired power plants are among the largest sources of carbon dioxide pollution in the country and a significant contributor to global…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 28, 2012 - TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Peter and I are under the gathering clouds of Typhoon Jelawat,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 27, 2012 - When Kathryn Lee Johnson, a Catholic, married David Earl Kennedy, a Methodist, in…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 2, 2012 - WASHINGTON – Heat waves are as much a part of St. Louis summers as cold beer and…

The Himalayan mountain range in Asia is one of the highest places in the world, with several peaks rising above 8,000 meters. It’s also one of the most…