Shell Oil Spill Prompts Renewed Calls For A Moratorium On Oil And Gas Development In The Gulf Of Mexico

A leak from an undersea pipeline network in the Gulf of Mexico released nearly 90,000 gallons of crude oil before being discovered and shut down, federal regulators said. Read More

Fighting Climate Change Burp By Burp

In grassy fields and research labs around the world, scientists are making a herculean effort to help fight climate change: one cow burp at a time.

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Twenty Percent Of The World's Plants Could Go Extinct — And It's Not Just From Climate Change

With the human population fast approaching 8 billion, human beings are leveling forests, clearing savannas, and transforming entire landscapes to make way for industrial-sc...

30 Years After Chernobyl, Here’s What Radioactivity Is Doing To Wildlife

The largest nuclear disaster in history occurred 30 years ago at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what was then the Soviet Union. The meltdown, explosions and nuclear f...

Drinking Water, Sipping Poison?

India’s water quality problem is reaching crisis proportions, and today at least 1.95 crore habitations are affected by poor water quality. Over 3.6 crore people are ...

IN PHOTOS: THE LARGEST BURNING OF IVORY IN HISTORY

Kenya torched 105 tons of ivory worth an estimated $105 million over the weekend in a bid to highlight the impact of poaching. Eleven piles of ivory, representing the tusks...

Huge 'Dead Zones' Could Appear in the World's Oceans by 2030 Because of Climate Change

Man-made climate change is already cutting into oxygen levels in some parts of the world's oceans and could start producing new "dead zones" in some parts of the seas by 20...

Chernobyl's New and Improved Sarcophagus Will Contain The Disaster's Radioactivity For A Century

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, engineers are giving the epicenter of the long-defunct facility a facelift. With financial assistance from more than 40 n...

So We Signed the Paris Agreement. Now What?

On Friday, representatives from 175 nations signed the Paris Agreement, which outlines voluntary carbon emissions and climate targets. It's doubtlessly a momentous step in ...