PORTLAND, Maine - A large wave fueled by Hurricane Bill swept a group of surf-watchers into the sea at a Maine park Sunday, including a 7-year-old girl who died after the Coast Guard pulled her from the churning waters.

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From Arctic Inuit to Pacific Islanders, indigenous peoples from 80 countries are meeting at a summit in Anchorage, Alaska (pdf), this week to forge a common position on climate change. They want an official voice alongside national governments in upcoming

As Obama opens a new round of global climate talks in Washington DC next week, oil companies are flooding the US Capitol with lobbyists--and US airwaves with misleading ads to fend off strong action.

Between 2000 and 2008, the United States spent more than half a billion dollars for the chemical spraying of approximately 3 million acres of land in Colombia--the world's second most biodiverse country.Colombia is the only country in the world that allow

The environment ministers of rich and emerging nations were looking Wednesday to Washington for new leadership at talks in Sicily on combatting global warming.

A section of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which scientists have warned could be killed by global warming within decades, has regenerated itself in record time, a scientist said Thursday.

California is bracing for another year of bad wildfires as a thin mountain snowpack, parched vegetation and an early heat wave signal a third consecutive year of drought.

As attention to Earth Day picked up again in 1990, so did the frequency of events land celebrations on college campuses, in city parks and other gathering places around the world. But rather than spilling any more green ink writing about Earth Day 2009,

It is true that there are some natural causes of global warming. However, there is no doubt amongst the world's leading experts that the current dangerous warming trend is primarily caused by humans.