President Obama yesterday signed an important land-management package into law, designating more than 2 million previously unprotected acres as wilderness and creating a new national system to conserve another 26 ... Read More

Photo credit: The White House The big news from the White House on the first day of spring was that First Lady Michele Obama was planting an organic vegetable garden on ... Read More

Twenty years ago today, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez went aground, spilling nearly 11 million gallons of Prudhoe Bay crude into the pristine waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound, killing ... Read More

Global population growth will create a “perfect storm” of food, water and energy shortages by 2030, according to the UK government’s chief scientist. By 2030, world population is expected to hit ... Read More

On the first day of spring, or vernal equinox, the days start to get longer, the weather starts to get warmer, and you can almost feel yourself unfolding after the ... Read More

Hey, how can today be Earth Day? Isn't Earth Day in April? Well, yes and no. While April 22 is the date commonly celebrated as Earth Day in the United States, ... Read More

An underwater volcanic eruption and a 7.9-magnitude earthquake near Tonga generated a tsunami on Thursday [March 19, 2009]. A tsunami warning was issued to residents of the island nation, which ... Read More

People who begin using mobile phones before age 20 are more than five times as likely to develop a malignant brain tumor, according to an international group of scientists who ... Read More

Here’s some news about a taste-treat sensation that probably won’t be sweeping the nation anytime soon. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), which has earned a reputation for confrontational ... Read More

President Barack Obama has tapped Van Jones, a civil-rights attorney with an impressive record of using environmental solutions to create economic opportunity in impoverished areas, to join the White House ... Read More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed a new rule that would enable the federal government to keep better track of greenhouse gas emissions nationwide by requiring businesses and utilities ... Read More

The controversy over global warming gives rise to some pretty strange ideas sometimes, like the persistent claim that the eruption of a single volcano generates more carbon dioxide and other ... Read More

A new generation of nuclear reactors designed to generate more electricity more safely than previous technology may actually produce radioactive waste that is more toxic and would be released more ... Read More

By now, you probably already know a lot of reasons to think twice about drinking bottled water, right? For one thing, about 86 percent of the 30+ billion plastic bottles of ... Read More

Do you often feel like there is a black cloud hanging over your head? It could be the secondhand smoke wafting your way from cigarette smokers that live or work ... Read More

Photo credit: John Nievaart of Naracoopa Holiday Cottages. Rescuers have saved 54 pilot whales and six dolphins from among roughly 200 marine mammals that stranded themselves Sunday night [March 1, 2009] ... Read More