According to recent reports, the first solar-powered community in North America has been established in the Drake Landing Solar Community (DLSC) in the town of Okotoks, Alberta (Canada).

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown group of 15-20 rare monkeys in remote forests of Vietnam, close to the Chinese border. The Tonkin Snub-nosed Langur is endemic to northwest Vietnam and is considered to be "critically endangered"

CALGARY, Alberta: A coalition of North American environmental groups says the development of Canada's oil sands region threatens to kill as many as 166 million birds over the next five decades and is calling for a moratorium on new projects in the region.

Drilling leases on and near the border of Utah's scenic national parks have been pulled from an auction block. The US Bureau of Land Management announced its decision late Tuesday after negotiations with National Park Service officials

A previously unknown dolphin has been discovered by Australian scientists in their nations southern waters. Until now it was believed that there were just two species of bottlenose dolphins -- the common bottlenose, generally found in offshore

While it's typically thought that your biological clock is what tells you when it?s time to wake up or go to sleep, light and dark signals actually control your biological clock. To get more specific, a part of your brain called the Sup

Several tonnes of German nuclear waste finally arrived at the Gorleben storage centre at 12:17 am on Tuesday morning in what police called a smooth delivery after massive delays caused by three days of protests by activists.

Children with ADHD are better able to focus after a twenty-minute walk in a natural setting, according to a study published in the Journal of Attention Disorders. The study compared walks in nature to those in urban or residential areas...

A new PNAS study offers hope that agroforestry can conserve tropical forest biodiversity. Conservation of biodiversity and agriculture have long been considered conflicting interests. However a new study finds it doesn't have to be that way.

Many of the people who criticize developments for destroying habitat just don 't realize the impacts that the roads that they drive on, including major highways, have on wildlife corridors. Over the past couple of decades, awareness of wildlife corridors