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Obama pushes nuclear energy to boost climate bill
President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation.
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Aussie, NZ scientists prep for whale research trek
Scientists from Australia and New Zealand are to set out on a whale research expedition to the Antarctic on Monday in an effort to disprove Japan's argument that whales must be killed to be studied.
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Eroding Alaska village appeals lawsuit's dismissal
One of Alaska's most eroded villages wants to revive a lawsuit that claims greenhouse gasses from oil, power and coal companies are to blame for the climate change endangering the tiny community.
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Do rings of Herbie the elm have age, climate data?
Herbie, the giant American elm tree, is giving his trunk over to science.
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Panel selected to review nuclear waste options
The Obama administration has appointed former Congressman Lee Hamilton and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to oversee a commission that will recommend alternatives to Yucca Mountain for storing spent nuclear fuel and nuclear waste.
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N Texas acreage to be part of ecological project
What was once Dust Bowl farmland in North Texas is poised to be on the front line of one of the nation's largest ecological projects.
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Exhibition at Cranbrook explores climate change
A new exhibition that explores climate change is opening at the Cranbrook Institute of Science.
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Another perspective on global-warming debate
"When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned and the last fish dead, we will discover that we cannot eat money." -- Cree Indian proverb
So declares one of my children's science teachers on his page of the school's official Web site. He offers another lengthy quote that mocks critics of the global-warming hype, and also declares that "The Earth does not belong to man -- man belongs to the Earth. -- Chief Seattle 1854."
And you thought religion wasn't allowed in schools.
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China sets up energy agency headed by premier
China has set up a government agency headed by Premier Wen Jiabao to better coordinate energy policy, as the world's second-largest power consumer faces growing domestic demand and struggles with shortages.
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U.S. government told to cut greenhouse gases 28 percent
Saying he wants to lead by example on global warming, President Barack Obama on Friday directed the federal government to reduce its emissions of heat-trapping gases by 28 percent in the next decade — a goal that exceeds targets for the U.S. as a whole.
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Mexican leader seeks climate commitments at Davos
Facing down the skeptics, Mexico's president urged governments and companies on Friday to cough up the cash to fight climate change and avoid a repeat of the failure at Copenhagen to set binding targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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Indiana carbon dioxide pipeline bill advances
Legislation that would allow companies to take private land in Indiana to build pipelines carrying carbon dioxide is advancing in the Statehouse as part of a wider push supporters say is needed to prepare the state for greenhouse gas caps.
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New Mexico bill first step toward carbon storage
Rancher Jack Chatfield sees untapped value in the spaces that lie beneath New Mexico's dusty landscape. But he said the state needs to first decide who owns them.
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Water vapor drop may have led to warming slowdown
The slowdown in global warming in the last few years may have been caused by a decline in water vapor in the stratosphere, a new report suggests.
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Carter officials hope to save century-old bridges
A pair of bridges originally built to allow trains to cross the Little Sandy River as part of the old E.K. Railroad will be preserved as highway officials replace the aged steel spans along Rt. 773.
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Coal baron debates Kennedy over mountaintop mining
Don Blankenship and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the coal baron and the conservationist, are certain they could win over the world if only the public could see mountaintop removal mining through their eyes. On Thursday, they got their shot.
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Report: Appalachian states should look beyond coal
Coal production in Central Appalachia is likely to continue its 12-year decline, and an environmental consulting firm said Tuesday it's time policy makers and legislators in four states work to diversify the region's economy.
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Fear of violence grows in US mining fight
It was the slap heard 'round the coalfields: Cordelia Ruth Tucker, wearing the fluorescent-striped shirt of a miner, strode past West Virginia state troopers and into a stream of marchers protesting mountaintop removal mining to deliver an audible smack.
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Biofuel entrepreneurs gear up for production
Wide grins are never far from the faces of Jeff Lowe and Brandon Minix as they walk a visitor through their Midwestern Biofuels plant in Wurtland.
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Activists protest blasting plan at W.Va. mine site
Environmental activists determined to save a southern West Virginia mountain from strip mining demanded Monday that the state intervene in Massey Energy's plans for blasting at the site.
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EPA: Greenhouse gases endanger human health
The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment.
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Green and clean
A company whose very existence is based on marine traffic is moving its operations further away from the water.
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CO2 curve ticks upward as key climate talks loom
The readings at this 2-mile-high station show a troubling upward curve as the world counts down to crucial climate talks: Global warming gases are building in the atmosphere at record levels from emissions that match scientists' worst-case scenarios.
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Ukraine's carbon windfall an issue for Copenhagen
Ukraine's economic collapse has produced a potential multibillion-dollar bonanza, allowing the country to reap windfall carbon credit profits from the smokeless smokestacks of its industrial shutdown.
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Thousands of strange creatures found deep in ocean
The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos" that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits.
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Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling
A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's global climate summit in Denmark.
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NRC investigating radiation at Three Mile Island
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending investigators to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant after a small amount of radiation was detected there.
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Nuclear power won't solve global warming
A new report says nuclear power plants would take too long to build and are too expensive to make any impact on global warming.
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NASA: Evidence of water found in moon crater
NASA says a spacecraft that was intentionally crashed into the moon has turned up the best evidence yet of water.
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Lizards, rodent, frog added to endangered list
A rare tree frog found only in central Panama could soon croak its last, as deforestation and infection push the species toward extinction, an environmental group said Tuesday.
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Germany's Merkel addressing climate change with US lawmakers
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was making the case Tuesday for a global deal on climate change to a skeptical audience: members of Congress.
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Africans boycott meetings at UN climate talks
African countries boycotted meetings at U.N. climate talks Tuesday, saying that industrial countries had set carbon-cutting targets too low for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Wisconsin PSC approves utility's biomass plan
A northern Wisconsin utility's latest plan to replace coal with logging waste and dead trees as its primary fuel to generate electricity has been approved by the state Public Service Commission.
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Russia to back binding global climate deal
Russia will support a new global warming treaty only if it requires nations to make binding commitments to limit greenhouse gas emissions, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday.
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VIDEO: NASA's moon rocket makes first test flight
NASA's newest rocket successfully completed a brief test flight Wednesday, the first step in a back-to-the-moon program that could yet be shelved by the White House.
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Slide Show: Peak colors in region
You can credit the fantastic fall foliage in the area to the combination of clear, sunny days and cool nights.
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Nuclear energy becomes key in US climate debate
Nuclear energy, once vilified by environmentalists and facing a dim future, has become a pivotal bargaining chip as Senate Democrats hunt for Republican votes to pass climate legislation.
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Statistics experts reject global cooling claims
Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.
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EPA plans to veto surface mining permit in W.Va.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it planned to use its authority for the first time to revoke a previously issued permit for a West Virginia surface mine.
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Climate plan sends air of unease across Rust Belt
Nestled in Ohio's Amish country, Bill Belden's 124-year-old family owned brick company has thrived on the region's rich red clay and shale, and cheap energy from abundant coal.
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Ky. campus tracking, posting energy use in dorms
A Kentucky campus is tracking energy use in its dorms, then posting the information online for students to see how that use translates into buckets of burned coal, hours run on a laptop or even the production time for a number of hamburgers.
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Ky. gets first foam recycling point
Kentucky has it's first drop off point for recycling foam.
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Elliott County’s Ed Mabry-Laurel Gorge
It isn’t easy to get upstream, although anglers who appreciate pristine trout waters are finding their way to the sweet spots along Elliott County’s Ed Mabry-Laurel Gorge Wildlife Management Area.
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No deal on crucial issues as UN climate talks end
The United States was heavily criticized Friday at the U.N. climate talks in Bangkok for failing to offer emission cuts or financing for developing countries — both considered crucial to reaching a global warming pact this year.
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Maldives to hold cabinet meeting underwater
Maldives government ministers are taking scuba lessons and learning underwater signs in preparation for an unprecedented Cabinet meeting at the bottom of the ocean intended to highlight the threat global warming poses to the low-lying nation.
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Midwest govs. see clean energy cooperation need
Governors from across the Midwest are working together to promote clean energy industry and infrastructure in the region despite heated competition between their states for new investment and jobs.
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Polar bear tourism booms on Alaska's North Slope
With its passengers bundled against the arctic wind blowing off the Beaufort Sea, the small boat speeds smoothly across the lagoon. We pass the "bone pile" — the place where the unused remains of Native-caught bowhead whales are left — as we arc around a sandy point and into the adjacent lagoon. With temperatures in the 30s and a light wind blowing, we've just left the Inupiaq village of Kaktovik. Our destination is Bernard Spit, just off Barter Island.
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Obama adds to the Green team
President Barack Obama is adding people to his team of advisers and activists to develop and expand his environmental program.
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Ocean dead zone off Ore. not as bad as past years
The ocean dead zone that formed this summer off Oregon was less severe than in years past, but it looks like the phenomenon apparently linked to global warming is here to stay.
