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Higher energy and water costs, hurricane losses would add up; Congress to take up legislation next month...

A grass roots campaign to plant trees around the globe has announced that it is raising its target from 1 billion trees to 7 billion trees, the U.N. announced today...

The Energy Department said yesterday that the United States has the ability to meet 20 percent of its electricity-generation needs with wind by 2030...

Global warming may be bad for the environment, but it has been great for one industry: eco-marketing...

From the tiny tree kangaroo via the greater bilby to the quoll, some of Australia's unique and rare wildlife could disappear in the coming decades as a result of climate change, according to a report by the WWF published today...

Many of us are still trying to catch up on that hour of sleep we all lost over the weekend. The goal of Daylight Saving Time is to save energy. One local neighborhood is trying to do that every day on their streets.The street in one Las Vegas gated community is well-lit. How it's lit is a problem...

Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games...

A scientific project funded by the EU's research programme has found that introducing hydrogen into the energy system would reduce the total oil consumption by the road transport sector by 40% between now and 2050...

Interest in green investing has blossomed, thanks largely to Al Gore's 2006 documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," and soaring oil prices, which have fueled a sharp rise in alternative-energy stocks...

Sustainability is a core part of fashion’s future and in the last decade, ecological and ethical concerns have moved from the fringes of the fashion and textile industry towards its heart...

COLONIE -- Albany International Airport and the Capital District Transportation Authority will join in a test program to try out cleaner-running hydrogen vehicles as part of their fleets...

The Sustainability Yearbook is the world’s most comprehensive reference work for assessing exchange-listed companies according to their economic, ecological and societal success factors. Only the best 15% of the companies in 57 industry sectors are included in the Yearbook...

Americans concerned for their health, the environment and where their food comes from are changing the way they eat. And a yearning for more sensory stimulation is changing the way they shop. In response, manufacturers are changing the way they do business...

Just a week after an announcement that Israel will be the testing ground for the first electric cars, an Israeli company is taking part in the development of a hydrogen-powered car...

Most of us realize there are changes we should make in our lives to become more environmentally friendly, but overcoming inertia and actually doing it can be another matter. Now a few different companies offer starter kits to help make those changes happen...

ecolabelling is the global, independent database of ecolabels (wait, what’s an ecolabel?).They started this site because the sheer number of labels can be enough to make ytheir shopping trolley spin. Marine Stewardship Council certified fish. ENERGY STAR electronics. LEED certified buildings. Standards. Criteria. Verification. Assurance...

Play an online game and contribute to a good cause with FreeRice. There is a word that you have to guess the definition to. Click on the answer that best defines the word. If you get it right, you get a harder word. If wrong, you get an easier word. For each word you get right...

Las Vegas the tourist mecca of the World is set to begin development of the World’s first vertical farm. The $200 million dollar project is designed to be a functional and profitable working farm growing enough food to feed 72,000 people for a year and provide another tourist attraction to the city that does everything in a larger than life way...

The market has fallen sharply, and Solar stocks have fallen even more following rumors that Congress will pass the Energy Bill without the Production Tax Credit or Investment Tax Credit. Given this volatility and Renewable Energy's reputation for profitless startups, now might seem like an excellent time for a risk adverse investor to abandon...

A carbon tax is a tax on the carbon content of fuels — effectively a tax on the carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. Thus, carbon tax is shorthand for carbon dioxide tax or CO2 tax.[...]

CARMA reveals the carbon emissions of more than 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies in every country on Earth. CARMA provides the world’s most detailed and comprehensive information on carbon emissions resulting from the production of electricity...

If you want to know what enviro startups Silicon Valley movers and shakers think could be the next big green thing, the California Clean Tech Open is a good leading indicator. Last night in San Francisco the Open named six winners in its second annual startup competition.[...]

That's what Chrysler, Daimler, and BMW seem to think. They're all using GM's hybrid technology for their new trucks and SUVs...

People in the wealthy post-industrialised world tend to forget that for developing nations access to abundant and cheap energy resources is crucial in the fight against poverty. Westerners often hope these countries can somehow skip the polluting fossil fuel path which turned Europe, the US and Japan into prosperous regions...

Online gaming company explains why you no longer have to gamble to develop an energy efficient datacentre.

One of the biggest obstacles to any green technology initiative is the often mistaken belief that environmentally friendly products are less reliable, more expensive and of lower quality than their traditional polluting counterparts...