Currents

Young climate activists who worked to mobilize voters in order to elect President Obama are expressing great disappointment in the president’s recent support of offshore oil drilling.

A campaign is afoot to set an aggressive national pollution standard.

Given the environmental downsides of lawn maintenance, how is it that lawns became a standard feature of the American home, even in arid Southern California?

The second round of the Fur Free Fashion Design Competition is here: a way to showcase emerging designers who have found innovative ways to make stylish clothes without the use of fur.

An E. coli virus strain that can turn raw plant matter into diesel without any refinement or additional steps has been developed by a group of researchers.

2010 is a crucial year for forests.

Hundreds of miles off the North American coast, researchers from Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, have discovered an Atlantic Garbage Patch.

As Earth Day heads our way—April 22—bringing with it promises of green bulletin boards festooned with recycling arrows in elementary school hallways across America, larger school greening projects are afoot.

For the past 14 years, scientists have been searching for why so many California sea lions are dying from metastatic cancer.

Peepoo, a one-time-use bag designed to convert waste into fertilizer, also destroys disease-producing pathogens.