MONTREAL, Nov. 28, 2005 – On the first day of a United Nations conference on the crisis of global warming, Canadian Environment Minister Stepahane Dion called for a “more ... Read More

Scientists working in Antarctica have confirmed that levels of key greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming are higher today than at any time in the past 650,000 years—and humans ... Read More

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to scrap the outdated testing procedures it uses to determine what kind of gas mileage automobile owners can expect, and to replace them with a ... Read More

Earth to America! is a two-hour comedy special that celebrates life on Earth by taking aim at one of our planet's most serious problems: global warming. Some of the world's ... Read More

Among the damage caused by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina are oil and chemical spills from refineries and other factories along the southern coast of the United States. A Houston Chronicle ... Read More

With gasoline prices soaring, more people are looking for alternatives to gas-guzzling SUVs or, well, any type of gas-guzzling car. Hybrids that run on electricity supplemented by a gasoline engine ... Read More

Global investment in renewable energy set a new record of $30 billion in 2004, according to a report released by the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century. Technologies ... Read More

When it comes to weather, the Pacific Northwest is best known for its legendary rain, but the region may be on its way to becoming the poster child for the ... Read More

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation on the windswept plains of southeast Washington state is the most polluted place in the Western Hemisphere. After decades of weapons-grade plutonium production at Hanford, the ... Read More

Many parents are switching to organic baby food owing to a new study, which concluded that babies who eat conventional baby food have much higher levels of pesticides in their ... Read More

Scholars are predicting that 50 million people worldwide will be displaced by 2010 because of rising sea levels, desertification, dried up aquifers, weather-induced flooding and other serious environmental changes brought ... Read More

Canada flushes some 200 billion liters of raw sewage directly into natural waterways every year, from the St. Lawrence River to the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Pacific ... Read More