Just 210 elephants and 190 tigers remain in Indonesia, and within 20 years, all of Sumatra's orangutans could be extinct. This is the extraordinary tale told by MSNBC's Jeff Corwin as he travels the globe in his show, 100 Heartbeats. Corwin stumbles upon

Bursting out of a plateau in a remote region of the Ural Mountains - like the gnarled fingers of some giant subterranean monster - the seven rock formations of Manpupuner in the Komi Republic are as veiled in mystery as they sometimes are in snowstorms an

The Obama Administration has proposed vehicle emissions standards that will make vehicles sold in the United States cleaner and more efficient. This will take our vehicle standards out of the 1970s and into the 21st century, laying a strong foundat

Article on the great Pacific garbage patch.

Early this morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked down to a drill rig on Coal River Mountain's Bee Tree mountaintop removal site, effectively stopping blasting.

Is nuclear energy a good way to fight climate change? While nuclear advocates cite incredibly low costs per kilowatt hour, they conveniently leave out the costs at both end of a reactor's lifespan.

A team studying the effects of acidification - caused by dissolved CO2 - on ocean reefs found that it leaves fish unable to "smell danger".

Global warming is melting 18,000 Himalayan glaciers--the largest concentration of glaciers outside the great polar ice sheets. If the present melt rate continues, many of these glaciers will be gone by the middle of this century.

In an effort to pass his climate change bill, Senator Kerry has mentioned he would be willing to accept offshore drilling in previously protected areas in a race for 60 supporting votes. Unfortunately, if Congress follows through on its threat to expand

With concerns over climate change globally, you might think that the last thing that environmentalists would worry about would be the natural food chain of wildlife; but for the Great Lakes there could be severe consequences posed if the carp manage to