For the first time in 10 years, the Alberta government is giving the green light to creating new protected wilderness areas in the province -- a move being welcomed by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS). The region that will be affected is

Plants use an incredible solar conversion process,and scientists are looking at how such a system,could be used to create clean energy.One hours sunlight,could power the earth for a year.Interesting..though it can't be "the answer" on its own.

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The ban on exporting shark products will become effective in March 2010, the Ministry of Fisheries has said.

For the next two months, the Obama administration is accepting comments from the public about how to manage some of our country's best and wildest roadless areas. Help us generate as many comments as possible! Sign our petition!

Ganjoo and Koul dubbed as "hype" some earlier studies which suggested that the Himalayan glaciers were melting fast and caused serious damage to the Himalayan ecosystem.

The polar bear is a bear native largely within the Arctic circle encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses.

Polar bears are stranded at sea. Walruses are falling victim to wolves and polar bears. Oil and gas development is expanding. And the Arctic seas are being opened to the possibility of tourism, shipping and perhaps even commercial-scale fishing.

ScienceDaily (Aug. 3, 2009)-It wasn't that many years ago that the bowhead whale was written off as extinct in the waters around Greenland and especially in Disko Bay in northwest Greenland where University of Copenhagen has its Arctic Field Station.

ScienceDaily-A new NOAA report on the health of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary indicates that the overall condition of the sanctuary's marine life and habitats is fair to good, but identifies several emerging threats to sanctuary resources.