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The Federal Trade Commission says that in many instances, Lights of America's LED bulbs produce significantly less light and have far less longevity than the company says in its marketing.

A review board suggests hiring dozens of new oil and gas drilling inspectors, giving additional training to those already on the job and investing regulators with more authority to cite violations and impose fines.

In any herd, some animals have an acute ability to take in environmental cues like temperature and geomagnetic fields and lead the way. But there also is an advantage to being less sensitive to such cues and more attuned to other members of the herd, a study suggests.

The area in which LED's will best replace compact fluorescent bulbs, an executive suggests, is in directional lighting.

Barack Obama was considered a climate change savior 20 months ago, rushing into the White House with promises to price carbon...

Debates over the human element in recent weather calamities are a distraction from climate realities.

A discovery could help extend the life of experimental high-efficiency solar cells, which often suffer from short lifespans when tested outside the laboratory.

J. Craig Venter wants to create creatures — bacteria, algae or even plants — to carry out industrial tasks and displace fossil fuels.

Arizona's Green Party is not amused by a Republican operative's effort to recruit people from the streets to run as Green candidates on the November ballot.

Like federal and state entities in the United States, the European Food Safety Authority is now re-evaluating BPA, in this case by analyzing the data from more than 800 studies.

Recent food riots in poor countries prompted United Nations officials to call for a careful watch on prices.

The Interior Department released its new scientific integrity policy last week, but scientists and advocacy groups are miffed...

The Energy Department surprised everyone last month by pledging $1.1 billion for "Futuregen 2.0," what the Obama administrati...

Charcoal is taking root on the farm. Simmered out of eucalyptus, charcoal is being hoed into the degraded soils of former for...

A team at the Almaden Research Center of I.B.M. in California is trying to develop a new battery technology called lithium air that could allow a car to go 500 miles on a single charge. But a top researcher says that it will take many years, if it ever happens at all, to make the technology useful.

The intent is to reduce the wild horse population, but animal advocates say the roundups are cruel and unnecessary.

Floods that destroyed crops and livestock only worsened a crisis that was already under way as a result of successive years of drought and failed harvests in the region.

Why the New Zealand earthquake, a tad stronger than the Haitian disaster, had a relatively minor impact.

When federal agencies proposed new ways of labeling fuel economy last week, they set the stage for a debate: As Americans sho...

As proposed American offshore wind-farm projects creep forward -- slowed by state legislative debates, due diligence and envi...