Currents

One of the world’s most dangerous pesticides is still responsible for severe health and environmental impacts, reports the Environmental Justice Foundation.

It looks as though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is toughening its stance against the toxic practices associated with mountaintop removal mining.

Following a dogged effort by conservative talk radio and TV host Glenn Beck to portray Van Jones as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, racist and Communist, Jones resigned from his six-month stint as an advisor on the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).

If you’ve long suspected that the brilliant, digital, 50-inch image you were enjoying on your new flat-screen TV was sucking up a bit more energy than your old model, pat yourself on the back.

Wolves, it seems, are finally getting some slack—at least one small pack of Mexican gray wolves in southwestern New Mexico.

A couple weeks ago, Animal Planet kicked off the latest offering from likable Steve Irwin-wannabe Dave Salmoni. But the wild lions he interferes with didn’t agree to their co-starring roles.

Scientists believe that climate change has already contributed to the melting of frozen Arctic tundra which, in turn, may be hastening the release of carbon dioxide and methane buried inside that tundra in the billions of tons.

Rankings are always tricky. Particularly when it comes to how green one college or university is compared to another.

Music festivals can’t usually claim low carbon footprints. But some festivals, like Lollapalooza, are seeking to do better.

Audio tours, courtesy of your own mobile phone or handheld device, may hold the best promise for making an environmental impact when visitors come to an aquarium, zoo or national park.