Currents

Mountaintop removal mining has brought on the wrath—and songs—of country music artists.

Crystalline treetops, glistening fields of billowing white—a little snowfall can transform a city landscape into a scene of tranquility, but it’s not without its poisons and its price.

With the holiday season rapidly approaching, greens can feel decidedly mixed. In some ways, all the gift giving, holiday travel, parties and decorations can seem like the worst examples of our consumer culture.

Chrysler has abandoned plans to produce a significant line of electric and plug-in hybrid cars, prompting outrage from environmental groups like Friends of the Earth.

Military defense contractor Kellogg Brown and Root is facing a class-action lawsuit for burning toxic chemicals in Iraq and Afghanistan, posing serious health threats to as many as 100,000 U.S. military.

The Lilith Fair—the music festival in the late nineties that drew over 1.5 million fans over its three-year run—is announcing its return. And this time, it’s coming back green.

Two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employees have drawn agency fire after they posted a YouTube video criticizing the climate change legislation currently before Congress.

If your home is like most others in the country, you rely on a furnace for your heat, usually one fed by oil or gas that grumbles to life whenever you turn up the thermostat.

Women exposed to the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy give birth to girls that exhibit unusually aggressive and hyperactive behaviors by age two.

According to a new report by the Environmental Justice Foundation, 150 million people will lose their homes by 2050 as a result of climate change.