LA GRANDE -- Union County struck an unusual bargain last year to save a section of Mount Emily from becoming a high-end subdivision. Now it's coming back to bite them.

In a potentially valuable boost to fighting climate change, rich and poor countries are close to an agreement to end the destruction of the world's forests in 20 years, government negotiators said.

In the coming days, world leaders will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark to negotiate a new global climate agreement. This meeting presents an opportunity for the United States to lead the world in coalescing around a fair, ambitious and binding

Burning fossil fuels creates carbon dioxide pollution, the primary cause of global warming. But the earth's atmosphere isn't the only victim, there's another carbon problem. About a quarter of all carbon dioxide

Climate skeptics, people who doubt the science on global warming, must not be allowed to sabotage U.N. climate talks which start next week, Britain's Energy and Climate Secretary said Thursday.

A small group of indigenous people have travelled here to the historic Copenhagen climate talks to show negotiators dramatic documentary videos they made about the immediate impacts of climate change on their homelands and way of life.

The EPA is proposing using the Clean Air Act to force mega-polluters to reduce the amount of global warming pollution they emit. But before the EPA can take action, they must solicit public comments. The comment period is brief, so please send a messag

The beluga whales of Cook Inlet have dwindled in population from around 1,300 in the early 1980s to around 300 today. They're genetically and behaviorally unique based on where they live, but their people-populated living space is part of what keeps them

On and off for the past year we've heard statements about how the Environmental Protection Agency could really make an end run around Congressional inaction on climate and set a cap on carbon dioxide emissions though the Clean Air Act. Even Al Gore hinted

The National Marine Fisheries Service has proposed to designate over 3,000 square miles of critical habitat for endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales.