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Environmental awareness fuels green chemistry
European cities tackle climate change on their own
Whale artist: Kids can save the oceans
For more than two decades, artist Robert Wyland -- simply known as Wyland -- has wowed people with his giant whale murals that cover the walls of city parking decks, high-rises, convention centers a
Neighbors fight, states scramble over clean power
Curt Mann's neighbors are livid, accusing him of erecting an ugly wind turbine among their historic homes for no other reason than to show off his environmental "bling."
Walruses invade Alaska beaches, alarm conservationists
Earth a gracious host to billions, but can she take many more?
Michelle Lehmann wakes up at 4 a.m. Her husband, Jim, gets their eight children out of bed as she picks out their outfits, makes breakfast and packs lunches. She fixes the younger children's hair wh
'Race row' Nobel winner suspended
Nobel laureate biologist James Watson was suspended Friday from his longtime post at a research laboratory and canceled his planned British book tour after controversial comments that black people a
Nanodiamonds delivering drugs
Caring for the planet
Rising seas, sinking land threaten Thai capital
'Bioplastics' seek market niche
Tests reveal high chemical levels in kids' bodies
Michelle Hammond and Jeremiah Holland were intrigued when a friend at the Oakland Tribune asked them and their two young children to take part in a cutting-edge study to measure the industrial chemi
France on green crusade
Controversial Nobel winner resigns
The Nobel prize-winning biologist who caused a furor with comments about the intelligence of black people resigned Thursday from his longtime post at a renowned research lab.
Greenland's ice sheet melts as temperatures rise
From the air, Greenland's ice sheet, the second largest on Earth, appears to be perfectly still.
Warmer temperatures tied to wildfires, scientists say
Huge wildfires, such as the ones that have charred more than 460,000 acres this week in Southern California, are becoming more common in the Western United States, and scientists say warming trends
Red-haired Neanderthals? Possibly, scientists say
Sun-powered desert race: The World Solar Challenge
If, by some extraordinary feat of filmic conjuring, you somehow spliced Death Race 2000, Back to the Future and Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, editing out the violence, time travel and transvestism
NASA's high-tech wildfire weapons
Troops issued deck of cards with ace of artifacts
American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan may soon be playing cards with the ace of artifacts or the king of archaeological digs.
Ancient salamander-like creatures found embedded in rock
A rock that sat untouched in a Pennsylvania museum's fossil collection for years has rare full-body imprints of not just one, but three, ancient amphibians.
Supersonic, manta rays or slower planes? The future of air travel
White contrails crisscrossing the sky over every major metropolis are a constant visual reminder of the fundamental role of airplanes in modern life.
House cat makes scientific history
An Abyssinian cat from Missouri, named Cinnamon, has just made scientific history. Researchers have largely decoded her DNA, a step that may aid the search for treatments for both feline and human d
Sign-language chimp dies
Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept.
