Floods could last for at least another month. Water continues to rise in parts of the state, and the city of Rockhampton is almost entirely cut off, with roads impassable and the airport under water. Animals are stranded. The worst may yet be to come
People who care about animals in the flood-ravaged Australian city of Rockhampton are being asked to take in pets left behind by those who are fleeing…
A massive and controversial new art project … plastic trash in the Mediterranean … four states launch new recycling efforts … and how old Christmas trees and other plants could be a good new kind of green power. All the latest from This Week in Green.
With winter storms making headlines, did global warming take a holiday? Is the science confused? In fact, it’s so cold and so piled high with snow in parts of the globe precisely because of global warming. An expert explains the paradox.
We’ve seen this movie before. It was a sad story 10 years ago, and in this dark and sobering real-life sequel, the activist warns us that our water supply is in danger
Was the UN climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico, wildly successful, a crushing failure or something in between? Depends on your p.o.v. Commitments were made. Will they be honored? Will they be enough?
Climate change conference kicks off in Mexico with the quixotic goal of trying to unite the 194 participating nations and reach consensus on how to address global climate change. Delegates hope to make progress, but there are huge challenges
Paper or plastic? Parts of Los Angeles County have joined the movement to ban single-use plastic bags at the checkout counter. A conservative Congressman warns his party not to ignore the climate change issue. And more from This Week in Green.
What do sunburned whales, deformed beaks, rice, chocolate and beer have in common? They’re all in the environmental news this week. Rice may be the highlight, with strategies in the offing to help combat both hunger and poverty
As barometric pressures plummeted and tornadoes struck the Midwest, photographer Tom Semadeni captured this photo of spray from Lake Huron creating a double rainbow amid gale-force winds
Scientists have tended to steer clear of becoming advocates, but that’s changing. Seven hundred climate researchers have agreed to speak out on the danger of global…
By Geoff Grant – Zoe Environmental Editor With the results of Tuesday’s midterm elections still rankling many environmentalists and conservationists around the world, we thought it…
Commission says BP oil disaster was not just an “accident” … huge storm hits Midwest … Gov. Schwarzenegger goes solar … a good year for salmon … and a Holiday gift that is good for the Earth
Yes, it’s the hottest summer on record, but there’s more to it. Moscow has been choking through an unrelenting pea-soup smog. Smoldering under record heat, the…
Creates iceberg four times size of Manhattan A giant sheet of ice has broken off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. Measuring 100 square miles (about four times the…
People groping their way through crippling smog and heat in Moscow’s Red Square. Peat fires that no one can put out. How did it happen? Not by chance. The seeds were sown in the 1950s, and more is on the way.
Seven years later, climate bill collapses in U.S. Senate It took seven years for a fairly straightforward, not-very-demanding energy conservation bill to die in the Senate…
United Nations warns loss of natural environments is close to irreversible The world is moving closer to several “tipping points” beyond which some ecosystems that play a part…
Veteran broadcaster David Attenborough says human population is pushing plants and animals into extinction faster than at any point in the history of the planet. Scientists…
Sea levels are rising in parts of the Indian Ocean, including the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java.…