May 8
Diminishing snow cover is endangering fragile ecosystem, study finds
MILWAUKEE-Snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere - and especially along the edge of the Snow Belt, as in Wisconsin - has been shrinking.
May 8
Divers play tag to save turtles
The 10 scuba divers who plunged to a reef about 70 feet deep off Jupiter, Fla., had a mission: try to find a hawksbill sea turtle for marine scientist Larry Wood to tag.
May 7
Donna and Riley Shirey built green for themselves and to teach others
Before she got into the construction business 41 years ago, Donna Shirey was a teacher.
February 28
Drought-starved habitat, snow hit Kansas wildlife hard
Robert Penner’s rural Ellinwood bird feeders have been busy for the past 10 days. The normal crowd of scarlet-colored cardinals, lemony goldfinches, bouncy juncos and other regulars have kept him entertained. But the building numbers of meadowlarks, tree sparrows, pheasants, quail and red-winged blackbirds have him concerned.
November 15
BP to pay record $4.5 billion criminal penalty in Deepwater Horizon spill
Oil giant BP will plead guilty to misconduct and felony criminal manslaughter for the Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 workers and led to the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
November 14
California's cap-and-trade auction may be disrupted by Chamber of Commerce lawsuit
California's most powerful business lobby filed a last-minute lawsuit Tuesday that could spoil today's launch of the state's cap-and-trade market to curtail greenhouse gases.
November 14
Feds: More Arctic oil spill research is needed
A federal commission says more research is needed to prevent and clean up oil spills in the ice-covered waters surrounding Alaska and Canada.
November 13
As fiscal cliff looms, wind industry works to protect tax break
Wind energy advocates have just weeks to save a multibillion-dollar tax break, arguing half the jobs in the industry will be lost if Congress allows it to expire as scheduled at the end of the year.
November 13
California's cap-and-trade auction starts Wednesday
Despite fierce opposition from much of the business community, California's grand experiment in taming global warming begins in earnest Wednesday.
November 6
Fracking can hurt property values of nearby homes with wells, study suggests
Property owners near shale gas wells are liable to suffer a major loss in value because of worries over water contamination, according to economists from Duke University and the nonprofit research organization Resources for the Future.Their study found Pennsylvania homeowners who use local groundwater for drinking lost up to 24 percent of their property value if they are within a mile and a quarter of a shale gas well.
November 5
Idaho's power line route reveals clashing values, dueling processes
No matter who wins the election Tuesday, the Bureau of Land Management is going to have to thread a needle to find routes Idaho Power Co. and Rocky Mountain Power can use for the Gateway West power line across southern Idaho.
November 5
North Carolina's coast is 'hot spot' for rising sea levels
State legislators last summer ignored research that shows sea-level rise will accelerate its creep up North Carolina’s coastline this century.
This week, waves of science will say they were wrong.October 25
Miami’s new towers are untested by hurricanes
In the seven years since Hurricane Wilma swept through South Florida, unexpectedly shattering thousands of glass windows in the gleaming high-rises in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, a new generation of towers have reshaped the skyline. The new towers, built to tougher standards than the older ones that bore the brunt of the damage, have yet to face a real test of the turbulent wind, water and flying debris of a major storm.
October 25
Huge 'Perfect Storm', Sandy, could impact East Coast
Meteorologists fear conditions are conspiring to bring a storm of possibly historic proportions into the East Coast of the United States late this weekend and early next week.
October 23
Penn State climate scientist files defamation suit
Penn State University scientist Michael Mann, whose work showed that Earth’s temperatures have risen along with increased fossil fuel use, announced Tuesday he had filed a lawsuit against the conservative National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute for defamation, complaining that they falsely accused him of academic fraud and compared him to convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky.
October 23
Dept. of Energy confirms tank leak at Hanford nuclear reservation
The Department of Energy has confirmed that its oldest double-shell tank is actively leaking radioactive and hazardous chemical waste from its inner shell.
October 22
Cold front shows promise of wind power in the West
The cold front that moved through the Pacific Northwest and on to the Great Plains a week ago illustrated the promise of wind power if the region’s transmission system is upgraded as planned.
October 19
Alaska argues to keep polar bear off ‘threatened’ list
A lawyer arguing for the state of Alaska that polar bears are not a threatened species ran into skeptical appeals court judges Friday.
October 16
Feds tell Native Alaskan artist his art violates Migratory Bird Treaty Act
For hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years, Natives of Southeast Alaska have paid artisans to create tools, clothing and ceremonial regalia adorned with feathers.
October 11
Environmental groups petition N.C. over coal ash near Duke Energy plant
Four environmental groups have asked North Carolina's Environmental Management Commission for a ruling that would force Duke Energy to clean up groundwater contamination near ash ponds at 14 coal-fired power plants.
October 4
Some states score high on energy efficiency efforts, some not so good
Massachusetts and California are the two most energy-efficient states, according to a report this week from a group that promotes new energy policies, technologies and investments.
October 4
Shell Oil begins exploratory drilling in Alaska's Beaufort Sea
Shell Oil is now drilling wells in two Arctic seas off Alaska's northern coast.
Drilling began Wednesday afternoon in the Beaufort Sea after the end of an Inupiat whale hunt, according to Curtis Smith, spokesman for Shell Alaska.October 3
Standard bulbs phased out; alternatives can be turnoff for shoppers
It's lights out for the standard 100-watt incandescent light bulb after new national energy-efficiency laws took effect Monday.
October 3
Opponents of Alaska's Pebble mine cry foul over developer's scientific review
The group aiming to develop a giant copper and gold mine in the Bristol Bay area is vetting the scientific studies that underlay its work, turning to a Colorado-based non-profit with expertise in environmental conflict resolution. But critics of the proposed Pebble mine are having little of it.
October 2
Supreme Court's roadless forest ruling closes book on era that ended a decade ago
The U.S. Supreme Court closed the book Monday on an era in American conservation history that had all but ended more than a decade ago.
