Environment News

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.

SHE wants the character to become a female Indiana Jones. But Oxford author Sigrid Shreeve is hoping her debut novel will have a more hard-hitting message about the importance of protecting our environment.

Tommy Leggett, a well-known scientist who co-manages the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Virginia Oyster Restoration Center, spoke to the first meeting of the Chesapeake Supper Club on Feb. 26 about the past, present and future of Chesapeake Bay oysters and restoration efforts.

So we know Gov. Rick Scott likes to portray himself as the jobs-promoter-in-chief but what about tree-hugger-in-chief? During his fourth State of the state speech last week, Scott began by reeling off a list of recent accomplishments.

Teacher and campaigner once dubbed the 'environmental Taliban' turns his attention to the effects of tourism a and a future in politics For years, the co-founder of environmental group Green Sense went on the offensive against the construction of what he dubbed "walls of buildings" across the city that trapped air pollution while feeding the greed ... (more)

US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on American ambassadors around the world to make the fight against climate change a top priority ahead of new UN talks next year.

Proponents of synthetic biology tout its potential for bringing about great advances in medicine, energy and cheaper foods.

A WIND FARM which could earn the Scottish Tories' environment spokesman more than 8 million will make his constituents' lives a misery, kill tourism jobs and turn a community into a "ghost village", objectors have claimed.

President Barack Obama will expand the California Coastal National Monument to include the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands, a White House official said Saturday.

HMS Vanguard is to have its reactor refuelled after a test reactor was found to have a small internal leak of radiation Alex Salmond has demanded an apology from David Cameron for failing to tell Scottish ministers about a radiation problem at a nuclear submarine test reactor.

Gov. Pat McCrory was in Charlotte Friday for an economic announcement. Channel 9 asked him to answer to criticism that he has weakened the enforcement of environmental regulations in the state.