Listen to conservation biologist Vicky Meretsky talk about how endangered species could benefit from renewed protections from the Obama administration.
"The important and very difficult issue to deal with climate action is who is going to take action, where is this action going to take place, and who is going to pay for it," said Lorents Lorentsen.
Why so many dust storms now? Across vast areas, soil is being loosened by off-road vehicles, livestock grazing, road development for oil and gas production ...
Carbon dioxide levels today are unacceptably high, says NASA scientist James Hansen. Hansen talked to EarthSky about the dangers of atmospheric CO2 - and what can be done to bring the levels down in the future.
Climate scientists - and Stephen Schneider of Stanford - spoke about avoidable and unavoidable climate impacts. Schneider said we have to get on with the job.
Geoengineering is intentionally altering Earth's climate. But creating a means to cool down the climate - even temporarily - is fraught with potential for unintended consequences.
Oceanographer Eddie Bernard said progress has been made in understanding tsunamis since the one that struck southeast Asia in 2004. But, he said, the science of predicting earthquakes is still unreliable.
Limiting carbon emissions might lead to economic opportunities, said Carnesale of U.S. National Academy of Sciences committee on America's Climate Choices.