With some of the biggest oil reserves in the world, Azerbaijan is fast becoming an energy giant

Cancer rates among Navajos in the desert state of Utah doubled during the 1970s. Many blame toxic waste from nearby uranium mines. The earthly material making the United States world's most powerful political & military force has proven as destructive as

The annual catch of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean is to be cut by one fifth in an attempt to conserve dwindling stocks

A senior Bush political appointee at the Interior Department has rejected staff scientists' recommendations to protect imperiled animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act at least six times in the past three years, documents show.

Sir Nicholas Stern, prominent econonomist warns that the impact of doing nothing while the mercury rises ever higher involves an environmental catastrophe equivalent to a world war and an economic disaster akin to the Great Depression.

Pesticide residue regulation on Canadian produce is amongst the worst in the industrialized world, according to The Food We Eat, a report published by the David Suzuki Foundation this month.

While not as as concrete as Wal-Mart's in terms of environmental impact, DuPont has promised to generate a fairly significant portion of its revenue in the near future from the sale and development of "environmentally smart" products.

On August 17, 2006 the Sierra Club declared a triumphant victory in their appeal of the "Than Brook" logging project in White Mountain National Forest.

Part symposium and part trade show, the forum will give the companies a chance to drum up sales, hunt for partners and pitch themselves to venture capitalists. The government officials will meet with their California counterparts to discuss strategies.

A study by 75 scientists published earlier this year in the journal Nature estimated that two thirds of the 110 known species of harlequins throughout Central and South America have vanished