On "Real Time" Friday night Bill Maher pilloried climate change skeptics, particularly skeptics in the Republican party such as GOP Sen. James Inhofe and Rep. Joe Barton, insisting that they must "stop pretending climate change is a future problem."

Thundering explosions that shook the earth and stopped traffic on U.S. 27 once signaled progress in South Florida's long-stalled struggle to provide water to revive the Everglades. Work crews spent nearly two years scraping away muck and blasting

Trapping and pollution almost drove the river otter out of Minnesota. But now, the otter is back, and there's even a report of river otter living in a once badly polluted stretch of the Mississippi river in downtown Minneapolis. Forty-five years

Earth's oceans are vast reservoirs of carbon dioxide (CO2) with the potential to control the pace of global warming.

Carbon dioxide will soon be declared a dangerous pollutant - a move that could help propel slow-moving climate-change legislation on Capitol Hill, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said

Himalayan glaciers are melting faster than any other body of ice as a result of climate change, threatening devastating consequences to the livelihoods of millions of people dependent on the river Ganges,

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US oil giant Chevron, facing huge penalties for alleged pollution in Ecuador, has posted hidden-camera videos on its website that it claims documents Ecuadoran judicial and government corruption. Continues ...

"Volcanoes form mountains; supervolcanoes erase them. Volcanoes kill plants and animals for miles around; supervolcanoes threaten whole species with extinction by changing the climate across the entire planet... Is it going to blow again?"

A wildfire in the mountains above Los Angeles is threatening 12,000 buildings and continuing to spread. More than 10,000 people have fled their homes and state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says the fire is " still totally out of control".

LOS ANGELES -- A relentless Southern California wildfire raged Tuesday with 53 homes up in smoke, thousands more threatened and new rounds of evacuations as towering