Global Warming

University of Mexico expert says lack of solar activity to cause significant cooling that will last over half a century

A new regulation could neuter the Endangered Species Act -- and the administration knows it.

Nina V. Fedoroff is science adviser to the secretary of state and contends that genetically modified foods help the environment.

The scientific evidence is quite clear: deforestation increases flood risk, and also makes the floods worse.

Tough month for French nuclear plants… On July 8, the Areva nuclear site of Tricastin (southeastern France) leaked about 30 cubic meters of uranium-rich water.

In a rare piece of good news for Indonesia's forest, a regional governor has announced an interim ban on deforestation in Riau, one of the areas currently worst affected by rapid deforestation.

No one knows less about food than us. We, the American people, having inherited an extraordinary and unprecedented wealth of native and immigrant culinary traditions and knowledge - a kind of Alexandrian library of edible wisdom - no longer know how to fe

On the rapid decline of oceans

Of wind turbines and others...

What's up and what's down in the environmental world