The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study. It puts the annual cost of forest loss at between $2 trillion and $5 trillion.

VP Dick Cheney spoke at the White House Conference on North American Wildlife Policy in Reno, NV, claiming that the Bush administration has championed wildlife preservation. In fact, the Bush administration has been the most anti-environmental in history.

Imagine what would happen to us if rainfall was a thousand times more than normal? What if rates of disease transmission for malaria or HIV/AIDS were a thousand times more than normal? That is what is happening to plant and animal biodiversity today.

As the UN prepares to assess the Millennium Development Goals this week, will tension between the consumption of the North and the development of the South doom both to a future of crises and scarcity?

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

Although conservationists fear Australia's grey nurse shark could become extinct by 2050, "This is probably one of those one in a hundred examples where climate change may actually be somewhat beneficial for this particular species."

Some members of Congress want to rush us into developing oil shale despite the reality that it will put millions of acres of wildlife habitat at risk, threaten a significant portion of our country's water source and dramatically increase global warming...

Global warming is the most serious environmental threat facing the planet today. Americans need to know exactly where the candidates stand on this and clean energy. It's up to the debate moderators to press the candidates for jargon-free, specific answer

Congressional Democrats, balancing political reality against a policy they have long opposed, are on the cusp of approving legislation that would open the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to oil drilling as close as 50 miles offshore.

Human-caused climate change has impacted a wide range of Earth's natural systems, from permafrost thawing to plants blooming earlier across Europe to lakes declining in productivity in Africa.