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.

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

Earlier this month (Dec. 7, 2009), two Op-Ed columns appeared in the New York Times-one, by Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, supporting 'cap and trade' strategies for reducing carbon emissions, and the other, authored by NASA's James Hansen

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

How American oil money is pumping up climate change skeptics abroad--and how they could derail any progress made in Copenhagen.

With the threat of climate change being the biggest challenge facing the planet, Scotland's national forest and woodlands are of greater relevance and value to society than ever before.

It all started with a warning on the quality of bottled water in Paraguay. But concern has now spread about the extent of pollution of the country's underground water reserves

Conservative bloggers are calling for a boycott of the company. Executives say the series, in which Santa is warned the North Pole could melt before Christmas, was intended to inspire children.

Global temperatures could rise substantially more because of increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than previously thought, according to a new study by US and Chinese scientists.