Plaintiffs in the lawsuit against BP over damages from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill won't be allowed to bring up the oil giant's spotty past safety record,...
Opposition rising against U.S. Arctic drilling
Drilling in the Arctic waters of the U.S. may become as contested an issue as the Keystone Pipeline XL in up-coming months. Scientists, congress members, and...
Scientists have (probably) made contact with...
13,000 feet beneath the surface of Antarctica's vast ice sheet rests the otherworldly Lake Vostok. Home to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth,...
Long awaited freedom comes to Elwha River and...
Starting today, the National Park Service will begin the largest dam removal project in U.S. history as part of a sweeping effort to restore the Elwha River that...
Waterkeeper Alliance sues over Gulf oil leak...
Like many Gulf Coast residents, I was highly skeptical when both the media and the Coast Guard told us that the tar balls we were seeing wash up on our shores in...
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Agroecology is the science behind sustainable agriculture, from the ground up. It combines scientific inquiry with place-based knowledge and experimentation,...
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THE president of the Maldives resigned yesterday in what one aide described as a coup d’etat. President Mohamed Nasheed has been credited with bringing...
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The toll from Europe's killer cold snap hit at least 360 on Monday with nine new victims found in Poland, most of them homeless, and five drowned when a...
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A loss of sea ice could be a cause of the bitter winds that have swept across the UK in the past week, weather experts say The bitterly cold weather sweeping...
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Last week, the London Olympics were wrapped in fresh embarassment and controversy as Mayor Boris Johnson’s ‘ethics Tzar’ resigned live on BBC...
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( http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-03/fracking-rules-on-u-s-lands-seen-by-interior-as-state-model.html ) Federal rules for fracking on public lands, set...
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China's largest freshwater lake dries up Drought and new Three Gorges Dam blamed as fishers forced to seek other work and freight trade comes to a halt For...
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Although recent rains have put a dent in the Texas drought, a day of reckoning looms for the state’s long-grain rice growers, who pump millions into the economy...
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Meghalaya is a state in north-eastern India. The word "Meghalaya" literally means the Abode of Clouds in Sanskrit and other Indic languages....
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Antarctica is so vast that the pictures give you no sense of scale. The pencil-thin line across the satellite image of Pine Island Glacier (above) is actually more...
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If you can imagine the bleak landscape of the moon, you can envision the desolate, 54,000-square-mile tar sands of northern Alberta, a focus of controversy and...
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In a dramatic reversal of fortune compared to last year, an unusually dry winter is causing the level of Lake Mead, Nevada, to decline, making water managers...
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The ocean is a delicate place, and tiny changes to its composition can cause serious devastation. Adding carbon to the atmosphere contributes to global warming and...
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I realize that bitching about petty politicians is far more important than actually DOING something about things that really matter to most people. But here is a...
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Dow and its affiliate companies, knowingly and willfully, sold products of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) in India routing it through untainted companies by...
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An important meeting in the continuing battle of corporate take over of water.
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Water is one of my heart's passions in life. It's life, It's breath, the sheer majesty of its cascading torrents of wonder fill my heart with a joy and...
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Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous system of sea fishes with serious consequences for their survival, an...
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