The chemical perchloroethylene (or "perc") might not ring a bell, but it is likely be found in your home. Considered by the EPA to be both a health and environmental hazard, it is a solvent used by most dry cleaners across the country for more than 70 yea

The question the UK and the rest of us have to grapple with is: Is coal a part of our energy future at all? Should coal plants have to commit to carbon capture and storage in order to be approved?

I see nothing stopping this market from continuing to grow at 30%-50% per year for the foreseeable future. We have not even scratched the surface of the total electricity market.

Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement has started over 3,000 tree nurseries, produced 20 million trees and involved 50,000 women. "Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come."

What does it take to encourage, empower, or help an office go green? How about a touch-screen kiosk with real-time energy usage and tools to see your individual impact?

DRINKING bottled water is so anti-environment that it should be made as unfashionable as smoking. A British study has found that drinking a bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car a kilometre.

mining the oil sands in canada is a massive environmental disaster, the most destructive project on earth

Ancient forests--majestic, pristine and about to be destroyed! That is if President Bush and his buddies at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) have their way. Under newly released plans, 2.6 million acres of public forests containing old-growth trees....

An ambitious long-term program by JAXA, Japan's space agency, seeks to set up a reliable and environmentally friendly solar energy collection system thousands of miles above the Earth.

French researchers are trying to develop a way to get electricity from rain, claiming the mechanical energy of raindrops could be enough to power low-energy devices.