A company has developed a process for converting organic waste and other biomass into millions of gallons of useful, cheap biofuel that will wean us from petroleum addiction. Logged in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.

When (bears) are very hungry, they go looking for something to eat," biologist Ian Stirling said Friday. "There's nothing much to eat along the Hudson Bay coast in the fall other than other bears.

From the air, the Kampar Peninsula in Indonesia stretches for mile after mile in dense scrub and trees.

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

Entitled the Merida Message, the declaration put forth by the Chairman and Executive Committee of WILD9, describes the humanity's current situation as such: "runaway carbon emissions are driving the climate towards irreversible tipping points; we are..

Climate change momentum is taking a solid ground

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

Many people still hold stubbornly to a belief that nature's resources are unbounded, that the world's ecosystems are simply too large to be significantly impacted by the mere actions of humans. But in fact, man-made environmental catastrophes have occurre

A patch of ponderosa pines here in the Deschutes National Forest has been carefully pruned over the last few years to demonstrate the United States Forest Service's priorities in the changing West: improving forest health and protecting against...

The next Ice Age could take only weeks to engulf Britain. Scientists say the last great disruption to the Gulf Stream 12,800 years ago took only a couple of months to trigger a massive plunge in temperatures across Europe.