The New York Ocean and Great Lakes Atlas, an online atlas of the state’s water resources, was announced yesterday. From the press release: “Currently, more...

    Administration ordered California emissions plan quashed, former deputy testifies.     A former Environmental Protection...

Justin Wolfers says that current price of oil is a better predictor of future oil prices than oil futures markets:And it turns out that they all do worse than one simple...

It is fairly acknowledged by ecologists that a robust healthy forest is just a good indicator of the environment in general and that it provides a host of useful...

In announcing his newfound support for offshore drilling, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) consistently touts the safety of offshore oil exploration. “[I]t’s safe enough...

    "Lisa, the whole reason we have elected officials is so we don't have to think all the time. Just like that rainforest scare a few years back. ...

Last year the World Bank's Doing Business team released its annual report in Second Life. For those of you without the appropriate level of nerd credentials, Second Life...

The Back of the Napkin, by Dan Roam"Visual thinking means taking innate advantage of our ability to see, with our eyes and our mind's eye, in order to discover ideas,...

What will bike-friendly cities look like ten years from now? Worldchanging author Mary Catherine O’Connor writes that as 'citizens around the world raise the demand for...

Earlier this month, former EPA official Jason Burnett wrote to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) with explosive revelations on how the White House has neutered climate change...

It was no surprise that during today’s Senate hearing on the Bush administration’s manipulation of global warming science, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) — a...

    Political appointees at the Department of Labor are moving with unusual speed to push through in the final months of the Bush administration a...

As reported last year, the provincial government of British Columbia is making its geographic databases available online and via Google Earth. The announcement was made...

General Motors is partnering with more than 30 North American utility companies to create technology and energy interfaces for the introduction of plug-in hybrid...

Nutrients from the Amazon River's outflow spread well beyond the continental shelf and drive carbon cycling in the tropical ocean, say scientists who conducted a...

A multi university study has narrowed down the function of trace chemicals in large river systems and how this affects carbon capture in the oceans. They have...

Activists like Vice President Al Gore are encouraging a massive shift in human behavior to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reverse the trend in global mean...

No-take marine reserves where fishing is banned can have benefits that extend beyond the exploited fishes they are specifically designed to protect, according to new...

    Washington - The Bush administration wants to set the stage before leaving office for developing oil shale, rocky deposits in the western U.S....

Olympic athletes aren't the only ones who need to be concerned about the heavily polluted air in Beijing. The dirty air may trigger serious cardiovascular problems for...