A team of medical researchers in Pennsylvania have produced a new bird flu vaccine, made from a genetically engineered human cold virus, which is 100 percent effective in protecting vaccinated ... Read More

As Americans continue to experience skyrocketing oil prices, ExxonMobil posted the largest profit in the history of corporate America. The world’s largest oil company announced a record-breaking annual profit ... Read More

Clubbing and shooting thousands of baby fur seals used to be an annual event in Newfoundland. In the 1980s, Canada ended vessel-based seal hunting in response to public outrage and ... Read More

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, charged with evaluating nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court, will vote today on whether to send Judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the Senate floor for ... Read More

Six former heads of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, five of them Republicans, have called on the Bush Administration to stop talking about the weather and start doing something about ... Read More

In the 1970s, James Lovelock became one of the world’s most celebrated environmental scientists after he proposed the Gaia theory, the idea of Earth as a self-sustaining organism with a ... Read More

The United States and Australia capped the end of the Asia-Pacific climate summit in Sydney this week by pledging $127 million to support technology projects that would lower greenhouse-gas emissions—$75 ... Read More

The Senate Judiciary Committee began confirmation hearings today for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, who has raised concerns among environmentalists and other interest groups for apparent discrepancies between his ... Read More

Sixty-two percent of Americans disapprove of the way President Bush is handling the environment and other domestic issues such as health care, education and energy, and 49 percent favor giving ... Read More

“What oil was to the twentieth century, natural gas will be to the twenty-first,” according to an article in The Nation. Natural gas is becoming an increasingly important component in ... Read More

Weather went wild in 2005—in the United States and around the world—with a record downpour in the Nevada desert, glaciers melting in Greenland, an unprecedented series of major hurricanes and ... Read More