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US Cuts Greenhouse Emissions without Cap and Trade LawWhile the US Congress has made no real effort to address global warming, the world's largest economic power is surprisingly getting greener anyway.  The decline in greenhouse gas emissions ...

Vast Underground Water Source Mapped in AfricaAccording to a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, scientists have discovered a vast underground reservoir of water in Africa, which has dealt with water shortages for ...

Fertilizer Use Tied to Global WarmingResearchers at the University of California at Berkeley have found a link between the increased use of fertilizer over the past 50 years and a dramatic increase of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere, a major ...

Great Lakes Ice Down Drastically A recent study from the American Meteorological Society shows that the amount of ice covering North America's Great Lakes has diminished 71 percent over the last 40 years, trend the study's author says is at least ...

Global Warming Could Fuel Extinction of Tropical BirdsA paper from the Biological Conservation journal published this week suggests that as many as 900 species of tropical birds around the world may become extinct this century due to rising ...

US Approves 1st New Nuclear Reactors in 34 YearsA regulatory panel on Thursday licensed the building of two new nuclear reactors, the first authorized nuclear facilities in the US since 1978.  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's chairman, ...

Pythons Linked to Declining Mammal Populations in Florida EvergladesAccording to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, a growing population of pythons has taken over the Everglades, and seems ...

Feds Ready to Prosecute BP Employees for Oil SpillUS regulators are preparing to file the first criminal charges against employees of oil giant BP for their roles in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident, in which an explosion killed eleven workers ...

Coca-Cola Hires 3 Biotech Firms to Develop Plant-based Plastic BottlesCoca-Cola Co., the world's largest producer of individual serving soft drinks, is working with three biotechnology firms to develop technology to minimize the environmental ...

Controversy Swirls Over New Mexico Nuclear LabA proposed new nuclear laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico is creating some controversy as activists continue to seek answers about what kind of research will be done there, whether the lab is even ...

Study Illustrates Immense Cache of Green Power Resources in USAccording to the results of a study conducted by Southern Methodist University's Geothermal Laboratory, there are a tremendous amounts of untapped geothermal resources across the Unites ...

3,000 Dead Sharks Found In Illegal Nets Off Texas CoastThe Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reported Tuesday that as many as 3,000 dead sharks have been found in a long line of illegal fishing net's along the state's coast.  The netting ...

BOEM Issues Final Gulf Oil Spill ReportThe US government on Wednesday released its final assessment of the nation's largest-ever oil spill that dumped more than 4 barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico last year.  The majority of the blame ...

Google Reveals Power Usage DetailsIn response to speculation that Google must cause an enormous amount of environmental harm based on the energy it must be forced to consume for its operations, the world's Internet Search leader issued a report ...

Scientists to Begin Potential Global Warming FixA group of international scientists is preparing to launch a new experiment in September to see if they can slow down the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere.  As CO2 is ...