Imagine an oil tanker plowing through the ocean, hauling valuable cargo from resource-rich nations of the world to the countries that need it: but instead of oil, the tanker holds millions of gallons of fresh water. It’s not a vision from some fu...

Mariner Platform Blast May Extend Deep-Water Drilling Ban (Bloomberg) The explosion aboard a Mariner Energy Inc. oil platform shows Pres. Obama should maintain the drilling ban imposed after the BP Plc blowout in April, lawmakers and environmentali...

California lawmakers passed a bill late last month that its backers say offers the triple benefit of job creation, electrical grid stability and greenhouse gas reduction. The bill, AB 2514, is designed to kick start a statewide process of grappling...

Government scientists have found that private water walls in Pavillion, Wyo. are polluted with toxic chemicals used in the controversial gas drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — and residents have been told not to drink from th...

Developed Nations Arrange $10 Billion Financing in 2010 for Climate Fight (Bloomberg) Developed nations have identified sources for $10 billion in "fast track" climate financing for poorer nations this year and almost $30 billion through...

by Alyson Kenward, Climate Central When geoscientist Torbjörn Törnqvist decided to relocate his research group from the University of Illinois to Tulane University in New Orleans, he knew full well there might be some bumps along the way. In ad...

GULFPORT, MS. -- Mike Hirshfield, the chief scientist aboard the ship Oceana Latitude, is a lean, white-bearded man with keen brown eyes. Currently, those eyes are trained on the Gulf of Mexico as he and a crew of 12 scientists conduct independent re...

Court Ruling Gives Cape Wind Project Green Light to Build (Boston Globe) A divided Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday that a state board had the power to sidestep community opposition to grant the controversial Cape Wind energy project local...

by Severin Carrell, Guardian The prime minister of Greenland has accused Greenpeace of threatening the safety of oil workers and the environment after four activists forced a controversial deep-sea exploration rig in the Arctic to shut down today....

When the Obama administration last week asked the Supreme Court to vacate a lower bench ruling that could have forced utility companies to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists’ outrage was swift and ubiquitous. Matt Pawa, the pla...

Climate 'Sceptic' Bjørn Lomborg Now Believes Warming is One of World's Greatest Threats (Telegraph) Bjørn Lomborg, a self-styled "skeptical environmentalist" who has long opposed international curbs on carbon emissions, is now urging...

The Nobel prize-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change must undergo "fundamental" changes if it is to remain a "valuable resource," said a committee probing the group's processes and procedures in an unexpectedly sca...