People across Europe awoke on 6 January 1709 to find the temperature had plummeted. A three-week freeze was followed by a brief thaw - and then the mercury plunged again and stayed there.

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urge the EPA to cancel all remaining uses of endosulfan to protect the health of people and the environment. The deadline is October 20th.

On October 8, NRDC argues an important case before the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to protect whales from the military's use of mid-frequency sonar.

The Environmental Protection Agency formally refused yesterday to set a drinking-water safety standard for perchlorate

A federal financial bailout signed into law Friday includes a tax credit for oil shale development, environmental groups say. They immediately criticized several fossil-fuel measures in the bill as pork-laden bailouts for "Big Oil."

Geothermal energy uses heat that naturally occurs beneath the Earth's surface and is often touted as a greenhouse-friendly source of electricity. The heat used is partly leftover from the formation of

Scientists are discovering that climate change -- and not just fertilizer from farm use -- may be spurring the emergence of barren underwater landscapes in coastal waters.

The Republican Sarah Palin and her officials in the Alaskan state government drew on the work of at least six scientists known to be sceptical about the dangers and causes of global warming, to back efforts to stop polar bears being protected as an endang

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