The trophy for salvaging something from Copenhagen goes to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who anticipated months ago that extraordinary salvage was going to be the nature of the operation....

COPENHAGEN-President Obama walked into a meeting of the world's most powerful developing nations last night, divided his opposition, and pressed the larger United Nations assembly into salvaging these two weeks of talks with 'the Copenhagen Accord." How?

In an economics laboratory human beings may seem to represent the solution, but with one step outside it seems rather obvious that the garden has suffered since there were only two of us trampling it. Can the solution be to make billions more of us?

To these fertile urban pastures comes an idea with almost too many layers of good. A non-profit called Growing Home has converted two vacant lots, so far, into organic gardens. Local produce costs less-both economically and environmentally-so why not?

University of Washington Professor David P. Barash documents our Ponzi scheme with the natural world at length, and he even dips his toe in some mammalian morality...

Wright awakens to the beauty of a plant and to his kinship with another kind of animal, but he knows he sounds crazy just saying so. And isn't that exactly the problem? If it's crazy to appreciate other creatures, is it any wonder our planet is a mess....

A Venice, Italy power plant made headlines this week as the first in the world fueled exclusively by hydrogen, and rightly so. But most news organizations overlooked the source of the hydrogen: petrochemical plants that manufacture...

First, we need to settle a matter for Robert Frost, who must spin in his grave every time someone assumes "good fences make good neighbors." The problem with that assumption is profiled in the latest issue of Conservation Magazine:

The APA dispatched a team of eight psychologists to study American inaction on climate change. On Friday the chair of that task force, Dr. Janet Swim, presented its findings at the APA's annual convention in Toronto.

There is ample irony to be found in the panic humans feel when some other species succeeds dramatically because of us: mosquitoes in Hawaii, kudzu in the South, Asian carp in the Mississippi, zebra mussels in the Great Lakes, and, now, wakame in SF Bay...