Arctic scientist in hot water with Interior Dept.

Giant lizards hunted down in Florida

They're not Godzilla size but large, nonnative lizards in two South Florida counties are being hunted down after alarming humans, including a homeowner who found one that slipped through a doggie door.

UFC Live 4: 5 Lessons Learned

- Before, during and now after, Sunday night’s UFC Live 4 on the Versus Network was a wild one.

Disasters lead to search for 'Safest City, USA'

During a spring of disasters — tornadoes, flooding, wildfires and drought across the U.S. (not to mention Japan's quake/tsunami) — you might have asked yourself: Is there any place that's safe?

Ruff day at the office? Take Your Dog to Work goes wild

From a hike through the Belgian woods to a doggie flash mob held concurrently in New York and San Diego and linked via Skype, dog lovers around the world have been digging up unusual ways to celebrate the 13th annual Take Your Dog to Work Day on Friday, June 24.

French activist Bove pushes green agenda in Poland

French environmental activist Jose Bove urged Poland's government Thursday to abandon its plans to build nuclear power plants and explore for shale gas.

Airbus shows its vision of future flight

With the Paris Air Show less than a week away, Airbus has unveiled its vision of the in-flight experience of the future.

Texas Legislature has mixed environmental results

The Texas Legislature ended its regular session with a mixed bag of environmental rules, passing some bills that put it ahead of the nation and others that are bound to infuriate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Environmental hazards remain after Joplin tornado

As residents confront a gigantic cleanup following the tornado that savaged Joplin, experts say environmental dangers could lurk amid the mountains of debris in the southwestern Missouri city and even in the water and air.

Active alligators make for unease in Florida

It's moving and mating season for Florida's estimated 1.3 million alligators, and experts are warning locals as well as tourists to stay out of the way.

Cajuns to blame for flood misery? Not so fast

They deserve this for living in a floodplain. That's the easy response to the evacuations of thousands as Louisiana's Cajun country becomes an outlet for Mississippi River waters that would otherwise swamp New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

When snakes attack, it might be a night terror

For the last several years, Dorian Lake, 8, occasionally awakes at night, bolts up in his bed and begins shrieking loudly. When his parents rush to his bed, "he’ll be screaming like we’re not there, almost fighting me off, says his mother Belinda Edmondson, Montclair, N.J. "He’ll say ‘there are snakes, there are snakes.’ He’ll push the bedcovers off. Then he’ll fall back asleep.”

'Tase-and-release' of wildlife banned in Alaska

You never know what fool will pick up a stun gun and decide to "Tase-and-release" a wild animal with it. That's why Alaska decided to act before the scenario unfolded: Starting July 1 it will be illegal to do just that.

3 things to watch for with paperless statements

NEW YORK - Having your bills mailed to you month after month is bad for the environment. But many of us can't break the practice because paper statements are key to our financial housekeeping.

New fate for old aircraft carriers — not as reefs

It's a heave-ho, U.S. Navy style. After several years during which turning old warships into artificial reefs was fashionable, four decommissioned aircraft carriers will instead be dismantled, and recycled, at shipyards.

'Rock vomit' invades Alaska harbor

Researchers in Alaska are planning a strategy to attack an invasive species with a heck of a nasty nickname: rock vomit.

Minister: China pollution remains "very serious"

Pollution in China remains very serious as the country's rapid economic growth brings on new environmental problems, with nearly 1,000 contamination incidents in the last five years, a minister said Saturday.

Sheen: ‘I don’t know where my children are’

Just hours after police and representatives of his estranged wife turned up on his doorstep to enforce an emergency court order to remove his 23-month-old twin sons from his Los Angeles mansion, a visibly angry but surprisingly measured Charlie Sheen said that he had no idea where his children were, but vowed that he would get them back. “At this moment, on live TV, I do not know where my children are,” the actor said.

(Reuters) - A volcano that has been erupting for several days in Alaska's Aleutian Islands may be preparing for a more explosive event, scientists said on Wednesday.   Cleveland Volcano, a 5,676-foot peak located on Chuginadak Island, about 940 miles southwest of Anchorage, …

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued an order to E.I.

SYDNEY: Australia's climate could shift dramatically with five times as many droughts in southern Australia and no snow cover, according to a new report on the consequences of severe climate change. The report, released by Australia's national science agency, the CSIRO and the U …

In the face of courts hostile to the idea of awarding damages against major greenhouse gas emitters over the impacts of climate change, creative plaintiffs lawyers are placing their faith in the driest of subjects: insurance.

On Sunday night, a young mountain gorilla was found in an African jail, curled up on a bed alongside poachers who had attempted to smuggle her from the Democratic Republic of Congo into Rwanda, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

KUNA – Residents in Kuna are warned to be on the lookout after a mountain lion was spotted in a residential neighborhood Monday night.  

What many Americans and lawmakers seem to be missing is that our lack of action on climate change and sustainable development is partially to blame for our current economic predicament.  Recently I published a post about how the failure to have a price on carbon led to a lo …

Joseph Davis State Park features 1,200 feet of public access to the Niagara River, but for years, those looking to get a glimpse of the water, or go fishing, had to push their way through thick brush. Including poison ivy. “The first thing we’ve done is clean it up,&r; …

This is the dramatic moment a boat full of tourists narrowly escaped an extremely cold dip as they toured round glacier-filled waters.   By Wil Longbottom

These aren't the kind of eggs you want to scramble or serve sunny side up, that much officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration know.  Learning more? That's still the focus of the investigation into orange goo that gunked up the shores of Kivali …

TEL AVIV, Israel (KABC) -- A rare Sand Cat has been born at a zoo near Tel Aviv, Israel.      

As oblivious as the proverbial frogs in slowly boiling water, we are beginning to experience the seemingly benign first years of catastrophic climate change. Source: Clean Technica (http://s.tt/12ZZ2)

Texas Governor Rick Perry may be announcing his bid for president this Saturday, according to Politico. And last week, in an interview with CBN News, Perry gave a preview of his approach to federal environmental policy by explaining that he prays for the EPA to roll back emissi …

Last week, Vice President Al Gore “call[ed] B.S. on global warming naysayers.”  TP Green sets the stage for Gore’s blunt remarks:

Arctic sea ice volume by month in cubic kilometers.  The bottom (red) line is September volume. The plot has simple quadratic trend lines (details here), which likely oversimplify matters as we approach zero volume (especially for non-summer months) …