Most experts agree that we are losing upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily ... Along with this loss and degradation, we are losing some 135 plant, animal and insect species every day--or some 50,000 species a year--as the forests fall.

ACOMA, N.M.-- Uranium from the Grants Mineral Belt running under rugged peaks and Indian pueblos of New Mexico was a source of electric power and military might in decades past, providing fuel for reactors and atomic bombs

While much of the talk about curbing greenhouse gas emissions revolves around often painful steps for industry, a new report finds there's plenty you can do at home. Household energy consumption accounts for 38 percent of carbon emissions.....

What is becoming an issue in the West with gas and oil exploration, due to the number of so-called "split estates" in which a person may own the surface rights to something, but someone else buys the mineral rights.

For over three decades in Ecuador, Chevron chose profit over people and the environment. While drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Chevron deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater and spilled roughly 17 million gallons of crude

Peru is witnessing violent clashes between indigenous groups desperately trying to protect the Amazon and the government, who has pushed through legislation allowing intensive mining

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climat...

Bizarre colorful (luminous/glowing) cloud phenomenon in the sky was observed about 30 mins before the May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake took place. This was recorded in Tianshui, Gansu province ~450km northeast of epicenter, by someone using a cell phone

Bizarre glowing cloud phenomenon in the sky was observed about 10 mins before the May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake took place. This was recorded in Meixian, Shaanxi province ~550km northeast of epic...

CAN unusual clouds signal the possibility of an impending earthquake? That's the question being asked following the discovery of distinctive cloud formations above an active fault in Iran before each of two large earthquakes occurred.