In Partnership with:
119088 Stories, most recent news story added 24 minutes ago
Containers purchased and tested from restaurants in Indonesia, the U.K. and China, their biggest market, have revealed the composition of Indonesia's rainforests, Greenpeace has announced.
AFP/Sao Paulo Greenpeace temporarily blocked a freighter from being loaded at a northern Brazilian port on Saturday in protest over a partial presidential veto of a land-use bill seen as harming the Amazon.
A Toronto “Colonel Sanders” went for a drop in the bucket Sunday.
The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.
Hundreds of campers and day-trippers to Georgia's Cumberland Island National Seashore were ordered to leave by Sunday afternoon as Tropical Storm Beryl was poised to make landfall Sunday night, the National Parks Service said.
McClendon's risky investment in Sundrop Fuels is a prime example of what Carl Icahn says is wrong with the company.
The Nature Conservancy hopes to elevate the issue of invasive species in the Great Lakes from an environmental concern to a statewide -- and Midwestern -- business concern.
A new report released by the World Wildlife Fund claims New Zealand has failed to follow through on key environmental commitments made at the original Earth Summit .
Donald Marron passes along a very handy chart from the Congressional Budget Office looking at what sources of energy the United States relies on — and for what purpose: Do we need more charts? We probably need more charts. Here’s another handy one showing where U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions come from, sector by sector, courtesy of a new report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change: Read ...
As Bob Mangile tells it, this is the moment on which the world has been waiting. Or, at least, nature lovers who subscribe to the Sperry-Galligar Audubon Society newsletter and have been anxiously awaiting news of Boxie the Turtle.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Golden Gate Bridge was a larger than life engineering project undertaken against dangerous odds and it opened 75 years ago on Sunday against vehement protest, at the cost of 11 lives. One of the most astonishing and admired man-made wonders of the world, gracing millions of postcards, featured in countless films, the bridge was not at first welcomed with open arms ...
The Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse has completed the first leg of its planned flight from Switzerland to Morocco without using a drop of fuel. Originally posted at News - Cutting Edge
As Memorial Day kicks off the summer recreation season, visitors should be aware of the danger of falling trees. Thousands of beetle killed trees fall every day in the central and northern Colorado forests.
One of the oldest continuously operating factories in Connecticut that made bells was destroyed in a late Saturday night fire.Little remains of the factory of Bevin Brothers Manufacturing Co., which says ...
One of the oldest continuously operating factories in Connecticut that made bells was destroyed in a late Saturday night fire.
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service says it has approved a Montana-based firefighting company's jet aircraft to be used to drop retardant on wildfires this season.
As Shell makes preparations to send offshore drilling rigs into the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas north of Alaska, it's important to walk through the history of energy exploration in the Arctic.
Mazda bets big on petrol and diesel
Video: 2012: A question of character or policy? This morning: the campaign debate over who's got the skills to turn the economy around? That's what the battle over Bain Capital and private equity is all about, and the fight is not going away.
At first, a passing police officer thought the man lying on southbound Tomball Parkway near North Gessner before dawn might have been intoxicated, but it soon became apparent he was the victim of a hit-and-run driver. The officer found the man still breathing just before 5 a.m. Sunday, KTRK-TV reports on its website, and he was taken to Ben Taub General Hospital in serious condition ...
New Zealand can "hold its head up high" at next month's Rio Earth Summit, Environment Minister Amy Adams says, despite a report saying the country has failed to meet environmental commitments.A
Open slideshowThe Canadian Press
Open slideshowPress Association
Open slideshowWRAL.com Raleigh
Open slideshowThe Canadian Press
Open slideshowThe Canadian Press
