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DOE awards $61M to coalition studying greenhouse gas storage
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $61.1 million to a Midwest multistate environmental partnership including Indiana to develop new ways of capturing and storing greenhouse gases.
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Global warming pollution threatens Australia's koala population
Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher said Wednesday.
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Smarter electric grid could be key to saving power
The glowing amber dot on a light switch in the entryway of George Tsapoitis' house offers a clue about the future of electricity.
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Western groups want BLM to consider climate change decisions
Conservationists are shifting the debate over oil and gas development across the West from the preservation of a single species here or there to the potential impacts that development could have on entire landscapes due to climate change.
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Global warming poll taken
A scientific poll by Dakota Wesleyan University indicates that 77 percent of South Dakotans and 71 percent of North Dakotans are concerned about global warming.
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Sweden's weather service says Baltic Sea region winter was mildest on record
Sweden's national weather service said Saturday that the ice-winter in the Baltic Sea region was the mildest on record, with the lowest levels of ice since measurement began more than a century ago.
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Panel to draft carbon bill
A legislative panel agreed Thursday to draft a bill to specify that owners of the surface of the land also own the right to store gas or other substances in the ground underneath the property.
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Food prices soaring, but that doesn't mean farmers are getting rich
Soaring food prices have consumers grumbling, but don't blame farmers and ranchers: They're just passing along huge increases in the cost of fuel, feed and petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides.
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River cleanup plan announced
Environmentalists have announced an ambitious plan to make a badly polluted waterway safe for swimming, fishing and shellfishing by 2020.
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Judge orders federal government to decide polar bear listing
A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to decide within 16 days whether polar bears should be listed as a threatened species because of global warming.
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UN decides to set up task force to tackle global food crisis
The U.N. will set up a top-level task force to tackle the global food crisis that threatens to touch off a "cascade" of crises affecting trade, the global economy and even political security around the world, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.
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Analysis: Debate over coal plants casts wide net
A bill sought by the Department of Agriculture to end small headaches in regulating grocery stores and vending machines didn't get much attention as it slipped quietly through the Legislature this year.
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Key investor in Montana coal-fired power plant backs out
A key investor in a planned coal-fired power plant near Great Falls has backed out of the project, citing financial and environmental uncertainties.
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Australia to spend $2.9 billion to buy water from farmers
Australia's government promised Tuesday to spend about $2.9 billion to buy river water from farmers in a bid to address the country's worst drought in a century.
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Energy event scheduled in Morehead
The Kentucky Green Energy Roadshow, offered through a partnership between the Kentucky Solar Energy Partnership, Appalachia-Science in the Public Interest and the Kentucky Solar Energy Society, will offer workshops about renewable energy and energy efficiency from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Morehead State University.
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Environmentalists peition to block mining permits in W.V.
Environmental groups have asked a federal judge to block permits issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for three mountaintop removal mines in West Virginia.
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Bush revises strategy on curbing greenhouse gases
President Bush on Wednesday called for a halt in the growth of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and urged other major polluting nations to develop national goals to address climate change.
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Muir Woods celebrates a century of conservation
The jammed parking lot outside Muir Woods is proof this stand of old-growth coast redwoods is a popular spot.
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Sawdust prices soar as supply dwindles with housing downturn
As huge saws rip through logs at the Hancock Lumber sawmill, sawdust flies through the air and coats equipment, floors and rafters.
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States again sue to force EPA to respond to ruling on global warming
Officials of 18 states are taking the EPA back to court to try to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked the Bush administration for inaction on global warming.
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Idaho finalizing plans to allow public hunting of gray wolves
Idaho is finalizing plans to allow the public hunting of gray wolves this fall, now that federal protections have been lifted, and state wildlife officials know "the world is watching" how they perform.
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Government scientists critical of BLM logging increase in Oregon
The Bush administration's plan to ramp up logging in Western Oregon has come under sharp criticism from the government's own scientists.
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Chunk of Antarctic ice shelf collapses
A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said Tuesday.
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Eastern Iowa colleges focus on going green
High energy costs and concerns about global warming have pushed colleges in the Quad Cities to consider going green.
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From rice in Peru to miso in Japan, food prices are rising
If you're seeing your grocery bill go up, you're not alone.
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Rare fish halts river dredging plan
Although it looks like it swam the seas when dinosaurs roamed the planet, the Merrimack River's most famous bottom-dweller doesn't have teeth.
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Giant marine life and potential new species found in Antarctic sea survey
Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish.
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Air Force prods Wall St. to invest in coal-to-fuel plants
On a wind-swept air base near the Missouri River, the Air Force has launched an ambitious plan to wean itself from foreign oil by turning to a new and unlikely source: coal.
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Tribal college wind turbine to begin operating
A wind turbine erected on the Turtle Mountain Community College campus is to begin operating in early April.
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Hal Rogers goes to Frankfort in support of water quality
Republican U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers came to Frankfort on Thursday and lent a hand to a Democratic Kentucky lawmaker’s bill designed to make it easier to improve water quality.
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Workers are removing trainloads of contaminated mud and dismantling a dam in Montana
Every evening, a 45-car train rumbles away from the Clark Fork River, loaded not with copper, gold or silver ore, but with the toxic legacy of more than a century of mining: tons of contaminated mud from behind an old dam.
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World's glaciers are melting at record rate
Glaciers are shrinking at record rates and many could disappear within decades, the U.N. Environment Program said Sunday.
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Pacific fishing industry braces for salmon restrictions
Fisheries managers have canceled the early season of ocean fishing for chinook salmon off the coast of Oregon and Northern California because of a collapse of stocks in California rivers.
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Boyd, Greenup barely miss new EPA regulations
Boyd and Greenup counties narrowly missed meeting new Environmental Protection Agency ozone standards released this week, state officials said Thursday.
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A look at counties in violation of EPA smog standards
Counties or parishes by state that currently do not meet the Environmental Protection Agency's new health standard for smog, as provided by the EPA.
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House chairman subpoenas EPA for greenhouse gas waiver documents
A House committee chairman issued a subpoena Thursday to force the Environmental Protection Agency to turn over 196 internal documents about its decision to deny California permission to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.
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President Bush intervened to settle dispute over smog rule
The Environmental Protection Agency agreed to weaken a key section of its new smog requirements announced this week after being told at the last minute that President Bush preferred a less stringent approach, according to government documents.
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Miners rally in Frankfort against stream saver bill
More than 2,000 eastern Kentucky coal miners and supporters rallied on the steps of the state capitol Thursday, accusing lawmakers and environmentalists who pushed legislation to protect mountain streams from mine spoilage of trying to take away their jobs.
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EPA considers tougher requirements for cutting smog
States and local officials across the country awaited word Wednesday on whether they will have to further cut air pollution to protect millions of people, especially the very young and the elderly, from respiratory illnesses.
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Stream saver bill falls two votes short in committee
It got a full hearing – although not in the legislative committee to which it was assigned.
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Drugs in the Water: Congress Reacts to AP series
Two veteran U.S. senators said Monday they plan to hold hearings in response to an Associated Press investigation into the presence of trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans.
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Drugs in the Water: Day Two--Telling the public
When water providers find pharmaceuticals in drinking water, they rarely tell the public. When researchers make the same discoveries, they usually don't identify the cities involved.
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Drugs in the water: Day Two--Fish and Wildlife
On this brisk, glittering morning, a flat-bottomed boat glides across the massive reservoir that provides Las Vegas its drinking water.
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Drugs in the Water: A three-day series
The Associated Press has produced a three-day series on how pharmaceuticals have entered the country's drinking water systems. The series will be published in the Science/Environment Section of our Web site.
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Shuttle Endeavour blasts off in rare night launch
Shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven blasted into orbit Tuesday on what was to be the longest space station mission ever, a 16-day voyage to build a gangly robot and add a new room that will serve as a closet for a future lab.
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Drugs in the water: Day One -- Research
Troubled by drugs discovered in European waters, poisons expert and biologist Francesco Pomati set up an experiment: He exposed developing human kidney cells to a mixture of 13 drugs at levels mimicking those found in Italian rivers.
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Drugs in the water: Day One - Found in American cities
At least one pharmaceutical was detected in tests of treated drinking water supplies for 24 major metropolitan areas, according to an Associated Press survey of 62 major water providers and data obtained from independent researchers.
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Drugs in the water: Day One - New York City
Locals say this city makes the world's best bagels from the best water, piped in from rustic reservoirs up to 150 miles north. Yet few know of a secret ingredient in their source water: a dash of pharmaceuticals.
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EPA can't give date for responding to high court greenhouse gases ruling
Nearly a year after being told to do so, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday he couldn't say when he would comply with a Supreme Court directive and determine whether greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles should be regulated.
