A New Jersey county is in the last phases of an intensive U.S. Environmental Protection Agency project to remove the radium-contaminated soil upon which homes in several communities were built.
Feral parrots are colonizing Britain at a blistering rate, according to a new study. Experts say the population, which is growing 30 percent each year, may threaten native birds and crops.
Masoala National Park is the crown jewel of Madagascar's nature sanctuaries—a hot spot within a hot spot of some of the world's most extraordinary biodiversity.
Scientists have discovered how to convert abundant, cheap, and smelly pig manure into crude oil. The process produces three times as much energy as it consumes.
Microscopic organisms that get their energy by inhaling metals in the ground play a key role in the arsenic poisoning of drinking water for millions of people in Bangladesh and West Bengal, according to a new study.
Annual car sales in China leapt nearly 80 percent last year, making the country the world's fastest growing auto market. As Chinese consumers have embraced the comfort, convenience, and status of car ownership, road accidents, traffic, and pollution have also grown.
The bald eagle and grizzly bear are U.S. icons. Yet both were hunted and poisoned almost to extinction. Thanks to federal protection—and a change in people's attitudes—they have recovered to such an extent in some areas that there is a growing debate about their status as endangered or threatened species.
As golf courses and golf resorts proliferate around the world, their growth provokes environmental questions about land use, habitat destruction, stunning water consumption, and runoff pollution from pesticides and fertilizers. Is it possible to have greener golf? Conservationist and golfer Mark Wexler reports.
Marine ecologists from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are combing the eastern Pacific for clues to why the dolphin population there is not growing, despite more than a decade of conservation efforts.
As the world's fish stocks plummet, whales are increasingly being targeted as "pests" because they are competing with humans for what's left. Conservationists fear that the perception could lead to resumed hunting of whales—which would not reverse the decline of fisheries.
Shrimp farming in Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and other poor Asian nations has devastated native mangrove forests and wild fish stocks, according to an environmental nonprofit.
The massive mute swan is creating ripples on both sides of "the pond." In both the U.S. and Europe, groups want to control booming swan populations to prevent them from overwhelming other species. Others say the bird is being made a scapegoat for environmental damage caused by humans.
