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

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.

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

Move over solar-powered electronics, the next big wave for power might come from the act of breathing.

Deborah Giles, a marine biogeograper at the University of California, Davis, explains to E why there is little scientific and no conservation value in keeping killer whales in captivity.

To the human eye, it can be nearly impossible to tell some fish species apart, but these seemingly identical fish have no trouble identifying a sibling from a more distant relative.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson sent a letter in response to attempts by Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and other coal state senators to protect their states from further greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act.

Innovative Solutions Bloom in India GreenSpaces is on track to be the greenest large commercial building in the world.© greenspaces.in When doctors told Kamal Meattle that his lung capacity had dropped to 70%, and it was Delhi’s air that was killing him, he had two choices: leave friends, family and the life he had built […]

Airplane exhaust and greenhouse gases go hand in hand. But aviation waste of a different kind is also environmentally troubling. Air travelers produce an estimated 7.5 million pounds of trash every day.