Currents

The fiery furnace of the Iraqi desert bears witness to some of the most appalling environmental conditions in the world.

Toyota can’t keep up with demand for its gas-sipping Prius hybrid.

In light of rising gas prices, more Americans view drilling for oil and the development of new power plants as a higher priority than energy conservation.

Always there have been hot days, so I can’t vouch for global warming but I’d lay money on the fact the world is getting flat.

In what is being billed as one of the largest conservation deals in American history, U.S. Sugar Corp., the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar, has agreed to sell 300 square miles of private inholdings within the Everglades to the state of Florida in order to help bring the famed "river of grass" back to life.

The U.S. Supreme Court invoked the ire of 33,000 Alaskans who were hoping to score $75,000 each in belated compensation for the losses incurred by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound.

The technology already exists to radically reduce CO2 emissions, without building new power plants, and without asking consumers to make significant changes in their usage behavior. So why does the power system operate largely the same way it did 60 years ago?

Chevy dealer Chuck Frank and other auto industry insiders are fighting for stronger fuel efficiency standards.

At the Steung Meanchey landfill in Cambodia, workers and children live among trash, scavenging for metal and plastics to escape crushing poverty.