Forget Mayan calendar: Climate change is real doomsday threat
But you don't have to look very far to find credible doomsday predictions based on the ever more detailed and dire scientific studies and reports.
Google-funded spy tech to prey on poachers
Both surveillance technology and Google have generated controversyt. But in opposition to the growing international threat of poaching, however, many feel they can be put to good use.
Top ten environmental wins of 2012
It's high time to look at the good points of the environmental struggle this year.
Costa Rica bans hunting, but what about shark finning?
Costa Rica officially banned hunting on December 10, becoming the first Latin American country to outlaw the sport.
Steelworkers, allies push oil industry to increase safety at refineries
How bad is the oil refining industry's pollution and worker safety problem? Well, let's put it this way: It virtually ruined an industry-backed Thanksgiving Day parade.
N.J. chemical spill goes airborne, forces hundreds of evacuations
When a train derailment in Paulsboro, N.J., sent two tanker cars hurtling into a nearby creek, the water became polluted with vinyl chloride.
Train derailment causes chemical spill in South Jersey
A freight train derailment this morning sent two tanker cars off a bridge and into a creek in Paulsboro, New Jersey, polluting the water with hazardous materials.
Will anything really happen at Doha climate change summit?
Each conference hears reports about how much the world is depending on these gatherings to develop cooperative international approaches to mitigate and adjust to climate change.
Urgent action needed to combat European climate change
Extreme weather has resulted in more destruction from floods, droughts, and heat waves, and these trends will increase with greater occurrences expected in the future.
