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On Tuesday, Newsweek hosted a climate and energy policy forum on Capitol Hill with the American Petroleum Institute. Now Greenpeace, which has been hectoring the magazine for weeks over its plans to partner with Big Oil for this forum, has asked the Senate to investigate whether the event was in violation of congressional rules.
PENNSYLVANIA----The Nature Conservancy today launched Working Woodlands, a model forest conservation program that aims to protect forests and fight climate change through an agreement with Blue Source to jointly develop market-based incentives that reward landowners who demonstrate exceptional forest management practices.
An Obama administration adviser says a decision could come within days on whether to temporarily close a shipping lock in a bid to stop the Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan.
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tule River Reservation Fire Department (TIA) and Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) officially declared the end of the 2009 wildland fire season on Saturday, November 21st.
Climate change is melting glaciers high in the Himalayas, threatening crucial water resources for much of Asia--and giving us a convincing reason to fight it
Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and others played the 1970 Greenpeace benefit concert in Vancouver.
India, like China, has committed to reducing the carbon intensity of its economy which will allow its emissions to grow in the long-run and avoid huge costs for its industry or consumers, analysts say.
SEATTLE--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s highest official is in Seattle today to announce an investment in marine technology that promises to lower air pollutants’ harmful risks even as it preserves local jobs.
Oil prices ended the week tumbling to a seven-week low as massive crude supplies and a surging dollar overshadowed encouraging job numbers.
Climate researchers say cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing.
The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. rose by 4 this week to 1,141.
Attorneys for theme park operator Six Flags Inc. and a group of its noteholders squared off in Delaware bankruptcy court Friday over the company's Chapter 11 reorganization plan.
UN human rights experts warned three days ahead of a key climate summit in Copenhagen that a weak outcome of the negotiations could endanger human rights with poor communities the most vulnerable.
When the final votes are counted, it's likely the black political machine that integrated Atlanta's City Hall — and kept it that way for four decades — will have pulled through one more time to deliver a fifth consecutive black mayor.
An international team of scientists has developed a new method of measuring the absorption of CO2 by the oceans that could become an "early-warning system" for climate change.
A young giant panda who became a major draw after his birth at Washington's National Zoo will leave for China early next year for breeding.
NEW YORK -- The nation's only government-mandated carbon market continues to suffer from weak pricing for emission allowances...
A pair of new projects will test the integration of large-scale solar fields into coal- and natural gas-fired power plants, a...
A sweeping new White House policy aimed at ousting special interests from federal advisory panels might sweep registered lobb...
A young giant panda who became a major draw after his birth at Washington's National Zoo will return to China early next year.
The Republic of Ecuador has sued the Chevron Corp. as the two battle over liability for pollution in the Amazon rainforest.
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