The stranding of a Japanese whaler off the Antarctic coast may wrecked plans by the government to promote whale meat as part of the country's traditional diet and resume commercial whaling on that basis.

Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty....

A federal proposal would slash the critical habitat in Oregon, Washington and California set aside under the Endangered Species Act for the marbled murrelet, a threatened sea bird, by about 95 percent, to 221,692 acres.

The world's most popular fruit and the fourth most important food crop of any sort is in deep trouble, as wild and traditional varieties collapse in India

AUSTRALIA'S long-running battle to end commercial whaling is again under threat at the upcoming International Whaling Commission (IWC) conference, Environment Minister Ian Campbell said.

(5/07/06 - HOUSTON) - The Environmental Protection Agency says the Texas City refinery where 15 people died in an explosion last year is also the nation's worst polluting plant.The plant is operated by energy giant BP. According to numbers obtained by the

Your health? Priceless. The savings from neighborhood trees on things such as hospital visits related to air pollution? Some $16 million if you live in East Boston, Roslindale, the South End, or Jamaica Plain, according to a study by the Urban Forest Coal

More can't afford needed help; solutions neither quick nor easy

Who needs dog tags? Some pet owners in the Cedar Valley are taking a high tech step to ID their pets.

A central New York woman faces multiple animal cruelty charges after authorities found dead horses, dogs and a cat on her property.