News reports are saying that the Senate is considering opening previously protected areas to offshore oil drilling as part of a "trade" to get a climate change bill passed.

Alaska's erosion is not a new discovery - natural ice barriers along Alaska's coastline have been eroding at a rate of 45 feet a year along the North Slope. While concerns have always surrounded the impact upon Alaska's oil fields and energy industry

In order to address the causes of global climate change and mitigate its effects, it is imperative that the U.S. passes a strong and timely domestic legislation

The Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, located in Wildcat Park, Joplin, Missouri, is adjacent to some of the last remaining chert glades, a globally unique habitat found only in this area and the biologically rich Shoal Creek an important

The environmental organization Greenpeace, has established a plan to set aside 40% of the worlds oceans as reserves as wildlife protected ares, where fish and other ocean life can live and breed without disturbance from reckless industrial and pirate

Asian giants China and Indonesia have hailed the Copenhagen UN climate summit outcome, despite its cool reception from aid agencies and campaigners.

As efforts falter to save North America's largest freshwater fish -- a toothless beast left over from the days of dinosaurs -- officials hope to stave off extinction by sending more water hurtling down a river so the fish can spawn in the wild.

Deforestation in tropical rain forests could have an even greater impact on climate change than has previously been thought. The combined biomass of a large number of small forest fragments left over after habitat fragmentation can be up to 40 per cent le

A giant iceberg double the size of Sydney Harbour is on a slow but steady collision course with Australia, scientists have said.

Food-poor ocean waters warmed by climate change likely played a significant role in the death of millions of sockeye salmon in British Columbia's Fraser River ahead of what was supposed to be a bumper year, says a scientific think-tank.