Enviro.News

Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, which an environmentalist calls “the dirtiest residue from the dirtiest oil on earth.”    

A populated park as a model for Earth in the Anthropocene.    

A flurry of discussion about public misperception of climate scientists’ views misses another science perception gap.    

It is early April, and another whale season is drawing to a close.    

Indonesia has approved a two-year extension to a landmark ban on clearing primary rain forests and peatlands, an official said Thursday.    

The proposal, which would allow some drilling fluids to be kept secret, did not please environmental advocates or the oil and gas industry.    

A judge said four government officials did not do enough after an earthquake struck to alert people about a tsunami that eventually left 156 people dead and 25 others missing.    

The committee voted 10-to-8 along partisan lines to send the nomination of Gina McCarthy to the Senate floor.    

A lucky stroke reveals big gaps in how our health care system diagnoses and treats the country’s biggest source of disability.    

Efforts to find a way to stop the spread of citrus greening have failed, and the damage is growing increasingly extensive, especially to oranges.    

A new institute, financed by the insurance industry, not only believes in global warming but also supports a carbon tax to combat it.    

Sometimes you have to leave the forest for the museum — boxes with slow loris skeletons have as much to tell as the trees.    

One of the two programs that monitor greenhouse gases said that it had revised a reading suggesting that carbon dioxide had surpassed the symbolic level of 400 parts per million.    

A fresh look at studies finding a less potent warming from the continuing buildup of greenhouse gases.    

The loss of tropical rain forests is likely to reduce the energy output of hydroelectric projects for countries whose economies depend on them.    

Frustration remains, even though New York City has one of the most aggressive antimold programs in the country.    

Scientists are working hard to understand the life that teems within our soil and that is threatened by farming and development.    

Though the amount was below danger levels, researchers warned of a small increased risk of cancers in humans.    

The Agriculture Department said approval of the crops might affect the environment and human health.    

Bureaucratic and technical obstacles have slowed the distribution of federal aid in places where water is laced with nitrates and other pollutants.