According to the US Census Bureau, the world population will increase to over 9 billion by 2050. One of the major problems that the world will face will be hunger. Currently one in seven people do not receive the proper nutrients and proteins, what wo...

Secretary Ken Salazar announced that Royal Dutch Shell and other companies anxious to begin offshore Arctic oil-development will have to wait until more is known about the potential danger of operating in this freezing ocean environment.Salazar visite...

Editor's Note: This post comes to us from the good folks over at Earth Island Journal. It's a piece written by Tom Rooney, CEO of SPG Solar. Enjoy! By Tom Rooney Conservatives, take a breath. Let's talk about energy. And why so many conservativ...

Mountaintop removal (MTR) is a rather nasty form of coal mining which basically blows the top off of mountains in Southern Appalachia. Nine banks examined by a report published in May by the Sierra Club and the Rainforest Action Network provide...

Without permission to continue its offshore drilling operations, BP has warned Congress that it might run out of money to pay for the damages caused by its three-month oil spill.The debate over whether a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling ...

On Thursday, a manageable explosion on a Gulf Coast oil rig reignited fears founded by the BP spill and revived calls for a reassessment of the country's drilling policies. Just before 9 a.m. Thursday morning, the Vermilion Oil Rig 380 exploded....

Bill McKibben, author and environmentalist, will make a road trip with Maine-based Unity College students as part of the Put Solar On It tour. Making the trip with McKibben and the students will be one of the solar panels former President Carter...

It might be relatively quiet on the Hill during August recess these days, but Big Oil hasn't taken a break from its standard playbook of dirty tricks. In the wake of the BP Oil Disaster, you might imagine it would be tough for API, Shell Oil Co and t...

Another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico has injured at least one worker and thrown over a dozen more overboard.According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the explosion occurred on a rig about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay at approximately 9 a.m. Thu...

A bill to ban plastic bags in California failed in the state assembly yesterday after lobbyists funded by the American Chemistry Council campaigned furiously for its defeat.  This is the third year in a row that the plastic bag ban bill has faile...

An investigation by a local newspaper prompted the firing of a controversial subcontractor working on the oil spill clean up in Calhoun county, Michigan.Reporters from the Michigan Messenger found that Hallmark Industrial, a Texas company also invol...

German scientists discovered a new species of chameleon in Madagascar, and hope to draw attention to destruction of essential habitat in that country by naming the species after Tarzan, the fictional jungle hero.Named Calumma tarzan, researchers hope ...

A new Amazon forest project will displace 25,000 people, many of them native, if it's implemented.  The Brazilian government is planning to build the Belo Monte Monster Dam there,  which would destroy their way of life and their culture. ...

Last week, Kenyan authorities apprehended a pair of smugglers trying to leave the country with two tons of ivory and five rhino horns by hiding the loot inside boxes labelled "avocados." The boxes, which were destined to be shipped to Malaysia, were s...

Today's savvy marketers understand the influence a green or sustainable label has on their product, however there has been little to no oversight on the reliability of these labels. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had created the original Guides fo...

The concept of dry water might seem like an oxymoron, but the substance has been around since 1968. Dry water is made of 95 percent water surrounded by modified silica (sand). The silica keeps the water droplets from reforming into liquid, making i...

Chewing gum, which does not degrade, thrown down on the ground is a litter problem on both sides of the Atlantic. In the U.K. three and a half billion pieces of gum end up on the streets every year. The British government spends £150millio...

Asian carp have been spotted in the Great Lakes system -- despite multiple electric barriers erected along the Chicago waterways designed to keep the fish out.The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation recently pledged $500,000 to find environmental solution...

Scientists in Borneo have discovered a new species of frog, and think that it may be one of the world's smallest.Although the frog, Microhyla nepenthicola, is no bigger than the size of pea when fully grown, it lives fearlessly inside and around carni...

The heartbreaking 2009 documentary The Cove exposed the horrific annual slaughter of hundreds of dolphins in Taiji, a picturesque Japanese inlet.  Activists hoped that worldwide pressure, outrage and protests would end the killings, but a ...