AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK, Kenya -- The attack came swiftly and silently in the night. The lioness bounded over the thatch of acacia thorns that surrounds the Maasai village and headed for the donkey ...More

Lisa Graumlich, known for her research on climate and ecosystems, has been named the first dean of the University of Washington's College of the Environment. The college is in its first academic ye ...More

It is another international war of words on the Himalayan glaciers, with the same central theme: whose problem, and responsibility, are the Himalayan glaciers? Minister for Environment and Forests J ...More

A silent cement factory on the Northern California coast is not where you would expect to find a former British Prime Minister on a Sunday afternoon. But there was no mistaking a blue-blazered Tony Bl ...More

Because of its susceptibility to climate change effects, Lagos should fashion relevant laws and policies which could find ready models in the 2008 Climate Change Act of the United Kingdom and the 2009 ...More

Denise Bode grew up in the cradle of Oklahoma's oil industry, daughter of a Phillips Petroleum executive living in a town where that company fueled the economy. She battled for petroleum businesses f ...More

Denise Bode grew up in the cradle of Oklahoma's oil industry, daughter of a Phillips Petroleum executive living in a town where that company fueled the economy. She battled for petroleum businesses ...More

More than 13,000 years ago, millions of large mammals such as mammoths, mastodon, shrub-ox, bison, ground sloths and camels roamed the Americas and may have had profound influences on the environment ...More

Dar Es Salaam — THE cost of soil erosion on the agricultural lands and forest degradation has been estimated to be over one third of the national Gross Domestic Product ( GDP). The estimated costs of ...More

NEW DELHI: As part of its efforts to check the climate change phenomenon, the government has come out with a mission document aiming to increase forest cover to serve as 'carbon sinks' removing greenh ...More

KINGSPORT — Three politicians and two industry insiders took a deep look into coal’s uneasy times at the Eastern Coal Council’s annual conference at the MeadowView Marriott on Monday. The two-day con ...More

HCM CITY —The impacts of climate change would severely affect the biodiversity of mangrove forests across the country, experts have said. Addressing a forum on the impacts of climate change and bio ...More

INDIA’S case for compensation and incentives for forestry as part of the climate change negotiations just got stronger. Ahead of the Oslo Conference on Climate and Forests later this week, the environ ...More

ON AN idyllic coral atoll just a two-hour boat ride from Queensland's Gladstone Harbour, out past the endless line of tankers queued to load coal for export, a half-dozen scientists work frantically a ...More

After months of negotiation, Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman unveiled their long-awaited climate and energy bill last week. As efforts continue to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mex ...More

With its close connections to the environment and climate itself, travel and tourism is considered to be a highly climate-sensitive economic sector. Thus, the sector is highly vulnerable to the effect ...More

Scientists testing how crops react in higher CO2 conditions than now – simulating conditions likely over the next 50 years, say that one effect will likely be that protein content will be reduced by o ...More

NAIROBI (IDN) – The East African country Rwanda will be the global host of the World Environment Day (WED) on June 5, which has ‘Many Species. One Planet. One Future.’ as the central theme focussing o ...More

INDIA’S case for compensation and incentives for forestry as part of the climate change negotiations just got stronger. Ahead of the Oslo Conference on Climate and Forests later this week, the environ ...More

The continued use of modern seed varieties by small-scale farmers could eventually lead to the loss of traditional varieties that are more resilient to climate change. According to new research fin ...More