American Indian stalwarts of environmental justice recently met at a national workshop to write a milestone climate change declaration, clearly outlining a course on how to save the planet using indigenous science and knowledge.

Teck Alaska and NANA, the Native regional corporation, want to keep the Red Dog zinc and lead mine going for another 20 years.

Once home to the highest ski resort in the world and now reduced to a rocky mountainside, Bolivia's Chacaltaya range bears powerful witness to the precipitous melting of glaciers

Pollution needs to be brought under control within ten years to stop runaway climate change, according to the latest Met Office predictions.

Coastal Louisiana is home to diverse wildlife threatened by the loss of wetlands. President Obama's leadership offers us a new opportunity to get coastal restoration right.

Critics of carbon trading, a strategy meant to combat global warming, say the buying and selling of carbon credits is being exploited

Rising temperatures are robbing polar bears of vital habitat and melting the sea ice they use for hunting and raising their cubs. In response, the Interior Department has announced a proposal to designate more than 200,000 square miles of critical

If 'moral prerogative' isn't reason enough to invest in protecting nature, here's another one: it's just been found to bring up to hundredfold return on capital. Yes, that's a potential 10000% gain--better than an investment in gold. According to a new st

In one of the largest land withdrawals the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has ever enacted, late last month the agency blocked new mining claims on nearly 1 million acres of southern Nevada land for the next 20 years. The land in question, made up of

Whether you're of this viewpoint or not, you will be happy to know that the Olympics hopes to bring environmental benefits by increasing the world's knowledge about climate change in Northern areas of Canada and the impact upon the polar bear