The Department of Energy (DOE) today issued what it called a first-of-its kind report that examines the technical feasibility of harnessing wind power to provide up to 20% of the nation’s total electricity needs by 2030.
People have been trying to figure out ways on how to save endangered species. Groups have performed demonstrations to tell people to stop killing the poor things. Laws have been made to protect them, but what exactly is the best method of doing so?
These pages concern how society’s various activities affect nature and the environment. It is here that we tell about a number of crosscutting issues such as the greenhouse effect, genetic engineering and health.
ANCHORAGE — The Mount McKinley climbing season is under way and a woman was the first to the summit this year. Lianne Noble of Scotland reached the top last week, accompanied by guide Zach Schlosar of Eagle River.
SENECA, Mo. - Nearly half of the 21 people killed by a tornado that smashed parts of Oklahoma and Missouri over the weekend died in cars, troubling experts who say vehicles are among the worst places to be during a twister
CHENGDU, China - A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing more than 8,700 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades
A Seattle Times Special Report | We pledged to protect Puget Sound. We've passed laws and spent millions to preserve it. Yet we keep sabotaging it. The Sound is by no means dead. The rules are simply inadequate for the task at hand.
I understand enough about weather patterns to know that the term "global warming" is a bit of an oversimplification, and what should be called "global climate change" will have truly global repercussions.
Arctic ice is melting fast and the area covered by ice sheets in ocean could shrink this summer to the smallest since 1978 when satellite observation first started, Japanese scientists warned in a report.
You are what you eat. What does that make you? If you use your body as a graveyard for animal flesh you are personally supporting continuous disasters to humans, animals, the earth and the number one cause of global warming. You are what you eat!
Farmers have a reason to cheer after discovery of a banana variety which is more resistant to pests.
I know it is a banana but Gorillys Love bananas....
Bees play a critical springtime role,pollinating apple blossoms.There have to be enough of them to get the job done on the 10 million apple trees in New York,or there won’t be apples this fall.
The planet is nearing a tipping point on climate change, and it gets much worse, fast. Even for Americans -- who are constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little publ
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