Environment News

With the Indian River Lagoon mired in environmental concerns, interim City Manager Joe Griffin thinks now may be the right time to rehire an environmental specialist.

Area residents who appealed to Oakland County Water Commissioner Jim Nash to bring environmental agency officials together in a town hall meeting on issues related to horizontal drill and enhanced oil recovery methods, called "fracking ," sent a clear message in Rochester Hills Tuesday night: "Don't Drill the Hills."

Federal scientists have concluded that a plan to expand Port Everglades would not jeopardize endangered species or their habitat because it would replace and enhance thousands of corals and mangroves disrupted by dredging.

Joseph Sax served as counsel to Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt during the Clinton administration and later taught at the law school of the University of California, Berkeley.

The European Parliament on Wednesday backed a law to curb the use of "super" greenhouse gases used in fridges and air conditioners, which have a global warming potential thousands of times greater than carbon dioxide.

Frogs and invertebrates have been found dead after debris from a nearby construction site was discovered in a waterway, campaigners have claimed.

Secondary school students from Chapel-en-le-Frith and New Mills will be conducting climate change research on the Peak District National Park moors next week.

Change is Simple, Inc. , an environmental nonprofit, is implementing its education programs in all Woburn elementary schools this year.

For over three decades, David Fenton has played an unusual role in the environmental movement: marketing it.

The Union of Concerned Scientists reports that, thanks to global warming, insects previously stopped by cold winters are already moving to higher latitudes, a phenomenon that could expose an extra two billion people, mostly in developing countries, to the dengue virus over the next half century.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., left, checks her phone during a meeting of the Senate Climate Action Task Force prior to taking to the Senate Floor all night to urge action on climate change on Monday, March 10, 2014, in Washington.

Who are you going to believe, those claiming global warming or the temperature records you can see with your own eyes? Marx's line was intended to be humorous because it is so preposterous.

An experimental interstate water pollution credit trading system conducted its first transaction today, helping to bring a new way to reduce nutrients in rivers.

In nature, bright colors are basically neon signs that scream, "Don't eat me!" But how did prey evolve these characteristics? When did predators translate the meaning? In the current issue of the journal PLOS ONE , researchers at Michigan State University reveal that these color-coded communiques evolve over time through gradual steps.

Engineers sprung into action when more than 10,000 gallons of a chemical mixture leaked from a storage tank near Charleston, W.Va., and entered a river upstream of a water-treatment plant in January.

Researchers have achieved surprising results by exploiting nature's own ability to clean up after oil spills.

Democrats took to the Senate floor Monday night to talk about global warming and planned not to let up until morning.

A Co Tyrone farmer was fined a total of 1,000 plus 47 court costs and 30 Offenders Levy at Dungannon Magistrates' Court on Monday.

Democrats have decided to lean-in, not back-away, from so-called clean energy. Despite the embarrassing history of government-funded green-energy failures, "wealthy environmentalists are pushing Democrats to take bolder positions on climate change"-and global warming, as an issue, provides the impetus for more green-energy spending.

It is now 'very unlikely' that any large supermarket will be built at Hemel Hempstead's current Civic Centre site, according to Dacorum Borough Council's director of housing and regeneration.