Currents

Iceland has made huge strides in geothermal energy and hydroelectric power. They’re adding hydrogen vehicles and fuel cell boats, but some locals say that more hydroelectric plants will mar the frigid landscape.

As the Forest Service digs deeper into its own pockets to fight forest fires, it’s had to cut into critical programs including habitat restoration and invasive species control.

According to Reuters, some influential Republicans have begun to "drink the Kool-Aid" on global warming.

According to researchers from the Pennsylvania-based nonprofit Environmental Leadership Program (ELP), Americans strongly prefer screen time to nature.

Alexander Cockburn is a long-time firebrand in The Nation magazine, and before that the Village Voice. Lately he’s bent so far left he’s joined the right. In recent months, his column and online writing have attracted a great deal of controversy based on his assertions that the science of global warming is off base.

The Nature Conservancy, the world’s leading international land conservation nonprofit, announced last week that it will be helping the government of China carry out a feasibility study on how to manage flood plain risks downstream from the controversial Three Gorges Dam, a colossal hydro-electric generating facility located on the Yangtze River.

Most previous presidents have used their "lame duck" year in office to polish their legacies by increasing environmental protection. By contrast, George W. Bush seems intent to win friends among loggers by "getting out the cut."

Breast cancer rates have nearly tripled in the United States over the last 60 years making it the second most common cancer in women.

Hungry refugees in East Africa are turning to chimps for protein.© Getty Images A new report from the wildlife trade monitoring group Traffic finds that hunting by hungry East African refugees is decimating populations of chimpanzees, buffaloes and zebra in Tanzania. More than half a million refugees from Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of […]

A new analysis released by researchers from Yale and Columbia Universities found that the United States ranked 39th of 149 countries on the basis of overall environmental performance.