Chopping down fewer trees and caring for the soil may be cheaper and more effective in fighting climate change than curbing emissions from coal plants, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said

Ontario will enact the toughest rules in Canada when its pesticide ban takes effect today, a move that could land the province in the legal crosshairs of an international trade dispute.

For more than a decade, the federal government has spent millions of dollars pumping elevated levels of carbon dioxide into small groups of trees to test how forests will respond to global warming in the next 50 years.

A tree fungus could provide green fuel that can be pumped directly into vehicle tanks, US scientists say. The organism, found in the Patagonian rainforest, naturally produces a mixture of chemicals that is remarkably similar to diesel.

Frogs and salamanders are disappearing in Yellowstone National Park and researchers at Stanford blame their decline on global warming.

Australian scientists have discovered an ancient reef that may push back the evolution of the earliest animals by 80 million years. The unpublished research, by geoscientists Associate Professor Malcolm

A public transit novice discovers benefits beyond the environmental ones on a train ride into Philadelphia.

LifeStraw is an instrument which instantly purifies the water and makes it ready to drink with the chromatographic techniques and other well-known filter methods. Great for African people who are fighting with the diseases because of dirty water sources

''1% Water and Our Future,'' an exhibition at Z33, a design and art gallery in the Belgian city of Hasselt, explores our relationship to water, and how design can help us to use it more responsibly and productively.

Our planet Earth is called "Planet of Water". We have not found any other planet in this vast universe, which contains such a great amount of liquid water. It is said that our life was born in the primordial ocean of this planet, and water is a critical e