COPENHAGEN -- This decade is very likely to be the warmest since record-keeping began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency

The smell of wood smoke might be a pleasant reminder of campfires and hot-dog roasts to many Middle Tennessee residents, but Environmental Protection Agency officials say to take care. The emissions from burning wood rank up there with other

SWAN REACH, AUSTRALIA -- Before climate change strangled his lemon trees, Hermann Markovsky would drift off to sleep to the murmur of black swans in a lagoon beside his citrus farm.

So world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen to discuss ways governments can tackle global warming. For two weeks, we'll be seeing headlines out of Copenhagen, and 99% of them won't matter enough to make the average Amer

Please overturn the Bush-era policy that prohibits the BLM from properly protecting lands that are wild and pristine as wilderness study areas. Under your leadership, the Department of the Interior has already made significant improvements in how the

To tackle climate change, we need leadership with the vision and fortitude for climate justice. The concept is simple enough: We should not make other people clean up our mess. And, nobody should use the political will and sense of urgency around climate

At the critical Copenhagen climate conference, the Danish government, in collusion with the U.S. and other wealthy countries, has put together a secret alternative negotiating text. Known as the "Danish text," it would let rich countries shirk their respo

Please tell Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to protect at-risk communities by restoring strong protections for streams and ending mountaintop removal coal mining.

The EPA has proposed new rules that - for the first time ever - would require dirty coal plants to meet modern standards for global warming pollution. Coal plants are America's largest single source of global warming pollution. But the coal industry and

Unlike at the UN conference, no accreditation is needed at the People's Climate Summit in Copenhagen. Some 10,000 participants are preparing their recommendations for the world's leaders.