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Time magazine reports that the Hong Kong business community loses some $90 million a year in medical costs and lost productivity, largely b...

Yellowstone burned for three months in 1988, destroying more than 600,000 hectares of forest. The fire resisted the best efforts of 25,000 f...

"State media said last year that vast stretches of the Yellow River, which supplies water to 12 percent of China's 1.3 billion peop...

To learn more For more information about the initiatives profiled here as well as other efforts to build a more sustainable energy future ...

The world's No. 1 commodity, oil, has been dominating headlines. Coffee, next in line at about $60 billion annually, doesn't have as...

Some 10,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists, engineers, and other technical specialists have asked Congress to stop the Bush...

"The increase in large wildfires appears to be another part of a chain of reactions to climate warming," said Dan Cayan, a co-auth...

U.S. carbon dioxide energy-related carbon dioxide emissions per unit of economic output fell by 3.3 percent in 2005. From 1990 to 2005, the ...

The study raises many questions about the long-term effects of pharmacological pollution in the country's waterways. "At this point...

Most of the interest is in making diesel using a technology known as Fischer-Tropsch, for the German chemists who demonstrated it in the 192...

He’s not recommending steps for increased fireworks safety, but simply calling for an outright ban. Moreover, Smith has published numerous r...

WasteCap Wisconsin is offering a fall session of the public training program for accreditation in construction and demolition waste recycl...

Tapping the Latent Power in What's Left Around the Barnyard "We're not taking any risk, the reduction in odors is huge, and we...

Water levels declined in 1998 and have remained low, forcing ships to take on lighter loads and sparking concern about shorelines and wetlan...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with anoth...

A new study just released by Environmental Defence shows that kids are full of these toxic chemicals. This is the first time the level of co...

"In the late '80s we had lowered formaldehyde by 70 per cent," he says. "In the late '90s, with free trade, formaldeh...

"are looking to the nation's cornfields these days to solve the United States' energy problems." In 2004, for example, the...

MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota spends $1.5 billion a year on childhood diseases related to environmental problems, according to a report scheduled...

Made to Break reveals the roots of our throwaway culture "Deliberate obsolescence in all its forms -- technological, psychological, or ...

Sounds like socialism to me. " STOSSEL: Let me just say that this, at bottom is (SCARBOROUGH) hatred of capitalism and a hatred of in...

OSHA is seeking proposals for $6.8 million in 1- year health and safety training grant from non-profit organizations. The grants will focus ...

"China recently said that pollution problems are costing its government more than $200 billion a year. The Worldwatch Institute in Wash...

China complicates efforts to fight global warming - baltimoresun.com : "Chinese emissions are making the air in non-urban parts of the ...

Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/29/2006 | Editorial | Carbon Dioxide's Double Identity : "The nation needs more clarity on complicated e...

29/6/2006--'Environmental insanity' to drink bottled water when it tastes as good from the tap : "Green groups said that the st...

A painting contractor hired by Miller was in stable condition after exposure to ammonia at the Miller Brewing Co. on Wednesday morning when ...

By David Horst. . David Horst writes a biweekly column on nature. E-mail him at sandhill@focol.org. Federal tax incentives for alternative e...

The lack of usable water worldwide has made it more valuable than oil. The Bloomberg World Water Index of 11 utilities returned 35 per cent ...

More than 90% of the world's living organisms are found in the oceans, but a new UN report says that researchers are only now beginning ...

Big Three emit the most greenhouse gas - Automotive - MSNBC.com : "With just 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States has...

American cars and pickup trucks are responsible for nearly half of the greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles globally, even though the nat...

"It's not a 9-5 job. It's an every moment you're awake job because you actually enjoy the work that you're doing."

While climate change threatens the extinction of thousands of plant and animal species, it seems to have brought beer-swilling-eve...

On June 21, 2006, EPA unveiled the world's first hydraulic hybrid delivery truck in Washington D.C. The EPA hybrid features a hydraulic ...