Environment News

Last week the denial of climate change continued. This time in the form of Kentucky State Sen. Brandon Smith .

Jason Mendelson was driving his Toyota Prius in the right lane of Interstate 64 near Richmond, Virginia, when a white pickup truck with two protruding smokestacks cut into the lane ahead.

Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey, along with their Canadian collaborators, have begun testing high-resolution satellites to observe, track and count polar bears in the cold recesses of the Arctic.

The 4R Research Fund announced it has awarded more than $2 million in grants for four research and demonstration projects that will add to current knowledge and fill existing research gaps regarding fertilizer best management practices.

A new study shows that some shark species may be able to cope with the rising salinity of Arctic waters that may come with rising temperatures.

A chemical used in the water treatment process leaked into the Arkansas River early Wednesday morning near downtown.

One member of Congress is so angry at the Environmental Protection Agency that he introduced a bill Wednesday that would prevent it from working on any new regulations until it conducts an extensive review of every single existing rule, The Hill is reporting.

The third of four smokestacks, known as the Four Sisters, at a the defunct coal-fired plant in Mississauga crumbles during a controlled demolition June 12, 2006.

Miniaturized fuel cells are probed with high brilliance X-rays at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

There is an intentional tension in Washington. Our founding fathers planned that opposing views would balance each other out-a push-pull takes place.

A new study led by CU-Boulder describes the fossils of a tiny hedgehog previously unknown to science living in a British Columbia rainforest some 50 million years ago near the height of a global warming stretch during the early Eocene Epoch.

Mice exposed to low doses of arsenic in drinking water, similar to what some people might consume, developed lung cancer, researchers have found.

Is your face wash polluting the water? That's what local scientists are trying to figure out along the Georgia coast.

The Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honorable Henry Seriake Dickson, is seeking the support of the international community to hold multi-national oil and gas companies operating in the Niger Delta, including Royal-Dutch Shell and Agip, responsible for the environmental devastation they have caused.

If two of the most progressive U.S. cities don't pass a tax on sugary drinks, will the idea finally fizzle out? If two of the most progressive U.S. cities don't pass a tax on sugary drinks, will the idea finally fizzle out? Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger ... (more)

A team of scientists reports the observation of a previously unrecognized form of soot particle, identified as 'superaggregates,' from wildfire emissions.

City of Wichita Falls Utilities Operations Manager Daniel Nix, left, and Nolan Mulholland, a water plant operator, look over the massive pumps and plumbing system Monday, July 7, 2014, which can move up to 10 million gallons a day from the filtration plant to a ground storage tank at the Cypress Water Treatment Plant.

City of Wichita Falls Utilities Operations Manager Daniel Nix, left, and Nolan Mulholland, a water plant operator, look over the massive pumps and plumbing system Monday, July 7, 2014, which can move up to 10 million gallons a day from the filtration plant to a ground storage tank at the Cypress Water Treatment Plant.

Tony Abbott's plan to axe the carbon price this week has come in for some withering criticism from his own side of politics, with a former head of the UK's Conservative Party declaring it to be an "appalling" move that "recklessly" endangers the future.

The dystopian sci-fi thriller Snowpiercer , director Bong Joon-Ho's first English-language release, takes place 17 years after a geo-engineering scheme to stop global warming catapulted the Earth into an ice age in-that's right-July 2014.