Scientists are using everything from a yellow submarine to weather balloons and special airplanes to solve a climate conundrum: why is Peru getting colder while the rest of the world heats up?

No one really knows how bad it will get, but as theStern Report concluded in 2006 doing nothing about it now is going to massively increase the costs of mitigation further down the line.

Swedish flat-pack furniture seller Ikea will stop offering plastic or paper bags at any of its US stores from this month. Each year, Americans also throw away some 100 billion polyethylene plastic bags, and less than one per cent of them are recycled.

Between the scientific community, the financial community, and President George W. Bush, the comparisons are being drawn on Climate Change and the Economic Rescue Plan. Frustration rules the day, as no one seems to know how bad it will get, and when!?

You may drool over the beautiful fashion spreads in home decorating magazines, and you may lust after all the luscious fabrics, furniture, and decorating accents that are enjoyed by the wealthy and famous.

The Senate has included the critical clean energy tax incentives--including an 8 year extension of the 30% investment tax credit, with removal of residential caps--in the bailout package (aka the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008).

Loose regulation, now blamed for ills ranging from the U.S. financial crisis to imports of tainted Chinese goods, is drawing increasing fire from opponents of the Bush administration's environment program.

Sea ice at the top of the planet has apparently reached the lowest volume ever recorded, say scientists, with conditions declining toward a point where the Arctic Ocean may soon be completely ice-free in summertime. While final numbers are still coming in

Europe is warming faster than the world average and governments need to invest to adapt to a changing climate set to turn the Mediterranean region arid and the north ever wetter, a study showed

It's no secret that our obsession with plastic bottles is turning into a bit of an environmental crisis, and no wonder, in the US alone 70 million bottles are purchased every day, yet only a measly 10 million are recycled