An article that appeared last week in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences detailing how researchers have developed genetically modified plants that can absorb large amounts of man-made toxic pollutants, could have a profound impact on the way land managers deal with contaminated industrial sites in the U.S. and beyond.
In what amounts to the largest "debt-for-nature" swap in history, the U.S. government last week forgave $26 million owed it by Costa Rica on the stipulation that the funds be spent on the preservation of tropical rainforest tracts.
New Orleans" marinas are still filled with toxic debris two years after Hurricane Katrina.
The new eco-documentary, Sharkwater, takes viewers inside the grisly world of shark-finning.
The National Park Service (NPS) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have teamed up with the nonprofit SafeLawns.org in making over a four-acre section of the National Mall in Washington, DC according to sustainable, organic lawn care practices.
In what amounts to the largest environmental settlement in history, U.S. energy giant American Electric Power agreed last week to pay $4.6 billion for installation of long-overdue pollution controls at 16 of its coal-fired power plants across the country.
Everybody loves Al Gore this week, after he shared the Nobel Peace Prize on October 12 with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Except for climate naysayers, that is.
The California-based nonprofit Rainforest Action Network (RAN) launched a new campaign last week, trying to influence financial sector powerhouses Citi Group and Bank of America to shift their investments away from coal and other dirty-energy projects and toward clean energy alternatives.
China, maker of 70 percent of the world’s lightbulbs, has followed Australia’s example and agreed to phase out incandescent light bulbs in favor of more energy-efficient compact fluorescent lights (CFLs).
At age 33, activist Julia Butterfly Hill is already an icon of the environmental movement. In 1997, she lived in a 180-foot tall, 600-year-old redwood named Luna for 738 days.
