Philadelphia has a groundbreaking idea about what to do with stormwater: Use it to feed grass and trees instead of letting it rush into the sewers.

Canadian Activists Urge Obama to Reject Environmentally-Destructive Oil Extraction from Alberta's Tar Sands:

A day after Pennsylvania officials confirmed the presence of a fungus linked to the deaths of tens of thousands of bats in New England, New Jersey officials yesterday revealed that the situation was much worse on their side of the river.

Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Game Commission confirmed that bats had tested positive for the same fungus found in New England bats that have been dying by the tens of thousands during the last two winters.

CHERRY VALLEY, Pa. - Natural beauty soars here even in a downpour. Amid yesterday's slush in the newly approved Cherry Valley Wildlife Refuge - Pennsylvania's first such federal preserve in 36 years - a red-tail hawk swooped out of a treetop

" Natural forces over millennia created the geysers, peaks and canyons that fascinate visitors here. But a newer feature is emerging on this stunning landscape -- cellphone towers." A truly sad story for anyone who loves nature.

As the estimated cost of measures proposed by politicians to "combat global warming" soars ever higher - such as the International Energy Council's $45 trillion - "fighting climate change" has become the single most expensive item on the world's politica

Strategic Affairs v Environment Ministers offer contrasting visions for Amazon underlining struggle of competing interests: economic or ecological prize? Rise in new deforestation figures, state of Mato Grosso, tops again, accounts for >60% of increase.

So she hadn't just 'lost the strength to carry on'- has finally pointed finger at 1 cause: Blairo Maggi, 1 of world's biggest soy producers & governor of Mato Grosso State where expansion policy of military dictatorship still in force & peasant murders...

Brazil's farming, biofuels & ranching sectors under fire, esp in Europe, for unregulated expansion at cost of environment & Amazon. Owner of 1,235acre farm fined for illegal deforestation before, 2nd inspection showed crops'd been planted; fined $4.8 M.