Arctic ice is melting fast and the area covered by ice sheets in ocean could shrink this summer to the smallest since 1978 when satellite observation first started, Japanese scientists warned in a report.
Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) proposed legislation that would postpone meaningful action on global warming pollution for at least twenty years. The Voinovich bill is dressed up as a way to take action, but in fact is a detailed prescription for doing
Right now, those decisions are being made on our behalf, without consulting us. Do we want the resources exploited for the dollars and for the skysrapers they'll help build, or do we want to slow down this exploitation of the Kimberley? It's NOT inevitabl
These photos,which vividly capture the scope of the tragedy that befell Myanmar were taken by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), the Terra satellite's visual-infrared instrument.The U.N. estimates that over 1.5 million individ
We all know that mountains get mined. However, George W. Bush signed a paper letting coal companies save money. The way they save the money is harmful to everyone, animals and humans. They simply blow up the top of the mountain, then push the dirt off
Nine West African countries have agreed an $8bn, 20-year plan to save Africa's third-largest river, the Niger. The programme, which aims to prevent the river silting up completely, was approved at a meeting in Niamey, Niger.
In the Southwest U.S., biologists are talking about returning beavers to rivers they once inhabited in order to fight droughts — which are expected to get worse as the globe warms. Beaver dams create great sponges that store lots of water.
Sagebrush steppe is one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world. Habitats on most of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Idaho National Laboratory site (INL) have been safeguarded from many disturbances for over 50 years.
You know when climate change is biting hard when instead of a vast expanse of snow the North Pole is a vast expanse of water. This year, for the first time, Arctic scientists are preparing for that possibility.
Canada has proven once again that it is way ahead of the rest of world with its progressive government. Ontario has banned the use and sale of lawn and garden pesticides for homeowners.
Wolves should not have been delisted, because they remain threatened by biased, inadequate state management plans, as well as by the lack of connections between largely isolated state wolf populations.
As it is prone to do when the donors come a-calling, the Papua New Guinea (PNG) government "has admitted its forestry sector is riddled with corruption" . This occurred during aid talks with the Australian government, and reflects political posturin
Many sources agree that, “Some 90 percent of the Pacific Northwest’s old growth forests have been destroyed in the past century.” Many enraged environmentalists, however, marched into battle to save what is left of these old trees.
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The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot is found only in high mountain meadows near the town of Cloudcroft in the Sacramento Mountains,N.M.The species is threatened by road maintenance and construction,livestock grazing,invasive plants,climate change,pestic
