With hurricane season approaching and another Bush crony at the helm of FEMA, a few restive lawmakers are seeking real reform for the storm-tossed agency. Whether they will succeed is another story.

Climate change is real, and its impact is potentially devastating to our way of life. So why do the news media have such a hard time telling the straight story?

NASA climatologist James Hansen won’t let political pressure from the Bush Administration blunt the urgency of his global warming research: It’s not too late to mitigate the damage.