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The Obama administration on Tuesday revoked a rule enacted toward the end of the Bush administration that it said undermined protections under the Endangered Species Act. Federal agencies will again have to consult wildlife experts on impacts - no ruling on polar bears.

A huge ice shelf that has wrenched away from the Antarctic peninsula has started to fracture into icebergs, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday.

MerleFest 2009 enjoyed great weather last weekend in Wilkeboro, NC. More than 70,000 music lovers filled the campus of Wilkes Community College for this festival honoring the memory of Eddy Merle Watson and the musical legacy of Doc Watson and the entire Watson family. This great family oriented event spans generations of music fans. It's great to see the younger generation of performers on stage with some of the legends of Blue Grass traditional music, as well as Blue Grass groups performing the songs of the Rolling Stones, Jimmie Hendrix, and others of diverse genres.

New scientific evidence suggests that dinosaur bones from the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the San Juan Basin, USA, date from after the extinction, and that dinosaurs may have survived in a remote area of what is now New Mexico and Colorado for up to half a million years.

The Galapagos Islands, renowned for rare animals that inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, may have to create special shelters to save species from global warming and rising sea levels.

A literature review reveals that landfill cover soils oxidize more methane than guidelines suggest

EPA notified petitioners of its intent to reconsider portions of three rules under its New Source Review (NSR) permitting program.

Over the past couple of years, a growing interest in sustainable building practices has led many in the real estate industry to build a foundation around the emerging green building industry.

The European Parliament last Friday (24 April) approved the extension of the Ecodesign Directive to cover products that have an indirect impact on energy use.

When most people think about the Olympic Games, they envision blazing torches, gold medals, and triumphant athletes. But a handful of scientists saw the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to find out what happens when a major industrial city suddenly cuts back on air pollution. The

As representatives of the 16 countries that contribute most heavily to climate change meet at the U.S. State Department this week, there are signs that many of these nations are more ready to consider major changes in direction than they were just a few months ago.

In the face of appeals by the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups, the EPA today asked its Environmental Appeals Board to voluntarily reject its issuance of a permit approving the Desert Rock coal-fired power plant in northwest New Mexico.

EPA released a list Monday of the nation’s top green power purchasers. The list is led by Intel Corporation, PepsiCo, Kohl’s Department Stores, Dell Inc., Whole Foods Market, The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc., Johnson & Johnson, U.S. Air Force, Cisco Systems, Inc. and the City of Houston.

The US Environmental Protection Agency won convictions against the Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co. of Phillipsburg, N.J in federal court for violations of environmental and health and worker safety laws. A large fine was assessed against the company, and The judge ordered the company to serve 48 months “monitored” probation, requiring it to submit biannual reports to the court. The sentencing of the company followed sentencing of four former Atlantic States managers to federal prison terms ranging from six months for former finishing department manager Craig Davidson to 70 months for former plant manager John Prisque. Also sentenced were former Atlantic States maintenance superintendent Jeffrey Maury (30 months), and former human resources manager Scott Faubert (41 months).

Plastic bag manufacturers working with the American Chemistry Council have set a goal to increase the recycled content of plastic bags to 40 percent by 2015.

The European Commission has conceded that its current fishing policy is not working and instead has resulted in alarming levels of overfishing.

Sixteen nations are responsible for 80 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Now those nations, dubbed the "major emitters," are sending representatives to a conference beginning Monday in Washington, D.C., to see if they can work together to slow the pace of climate change.

Rivers in some of the world's most populous regions are losing water, according to a comprehensive study of global stream flows. The research, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., suggests that the reduced flows in many cases are associated with climate change and could potentially threaten future supplies of food and water.

Brazil has become a leader in what promises to be a huge industry and global market that would have an equally profound, widespread and positive impact when it comes to reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and reducing carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention air, water and land pollution from human waste products more broadly speaking–bioplastics.

The Superfund program has been chronically underfinanced since a tax that supported it expired in 1995. Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the E.P.A., said the use of stimulus money would accelerate progress at 50 Superfund sites in 28 states, including eight abandoned industrial sites in New Jersey and two on Long Island.