Protected areas help to conserve imperiled tropical forests, but many are struggling to sustain their resident species.
Protected areas help to conserve imperiled tropical forests, but many are struggling to sustain their resident species.
Officials in the most populous nation on Earth have finally owned up to clusters of the disease around areas beset by industrial waste and other pollutants.
Scientists have identified the sticky substance that is damaging the feathers of hundreds seabirds washed ashore in England as an additive for lubricant oils.
Satellite images reveal that small oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico are often larger than reported.
The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, climate scientists should make their consensus about climate change known to all who care to listen.
Homing pigeons and tree swallows are being used to monitor pollution in cities and track environmental clean-up work at former industrial sites.
A look at what the President achieved during his first term in the areas of health, space science, energy, environment, and science education
A former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and one of the early forces behind the Clean Air Act, dies at 92.