Make way for a new entrant in the greenest car on the road contest. The retooled Norwegian carmaker Think is partnering with two of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms to put consumers behind the wheel of an all-electric car.
A new survey of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists adds further fuel to the growing firestorm over political interference by the Bush White House on scientific matters.
Captain Planet is back.
Researchers are only beginning to study the long-term effects of toxic chemicals on nail salon workers, 95 percent of whom are female, and more than 40 percent of whom are of Asian ethnicity.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is handing out preliminary permits to pursue a hot new form of “hydrokinetic” energy.
Proposals for wave energy exploration are exploding from the Pacific coast to a small Alaskan village, but there’s little thought given to the long-term environmental consequences.
From a cafeteria full of organic food, to extensive composting facilities, a switch from coal to natural gas and energy-efficient bulbs in the Capitol dome, the House of Representatives is taking a green stand.
With a shortage of freshwater & other resources, Israeli farmers & researchers have gone innovative: recycling wastewater, restoring coral reefs & building weather-resistant structures.
Federal fisheries managers in charge of the West Coast announced last week that the commercial salmon fishing season was being closed off the coasts of California and Oregon, and that catch off Washington State would be severely restricted.
Environmentalists were quick to criticize a new climate action plan announced by the White House last week as being too little too late.
