Do you know what really happens to your electronics after you're done with them? If you send them to a recycling facility, there's a good chance that they'll actually end up in countries like China, India or Ghana, where local workers risk their health to

Climate change poses a huge barrier to a fulfilling future, argues Lord Puttnam, an ambassador for Unicef UK. he asks what price children will have to pay for three or four carbon-happy generations?

BOSTON (AP) - Environmental and health advocates, including the American Lung Association, are pushing a bill that would ban the use of old construction and demolition debris in wood burning power plants.

If global temperatures rise just 2 degrees Celcius, "We won't be around. We will be underwater", Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed told Rueters in Trinidad and Tobago, where he and other leaders of the 53-nation Commonwealth pleadged support for a

An environmental activist from New Jersey who faces arson charges in the US has been sentenced to 3 years in prison in China on drug charges. Justin Solondz, 30, had been hiding out under a pseudonym in the mountainous town

A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck a remote eastern Indonesian island of Sumba in East Nusa Tenggara Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of injury and damage, officials said. The quake took place at a depth of 30

Pushing for a legally binding substansive outcome at the Copenhagen climate change meet, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said India is willing to sign on to ambtious global target for emission reduction or limiting tempereture increase if it is

There are two important things to know about tracking wild elephants, and it's better to learn both of them before you're actually in the jungle, tracking wild elephants. First, elephants are fast. In thick forest -- in this case, the vast Ulu Masen

Wagons brimming with logs accumulate in the Siberian railway station of Dalnerechensk, more than 8,000km (4,971 miles) east of Moscow. They are waiting to cross the nearby Chinese border. Once in China, they will be processed

PRIOR LAKE, Minn. - American Indian stalwarts of environmental justice recently met at a national workshop to write a milestone climate change declaration, clearly outlining a course on how to save the planet using indigenous science and knowledge.