NY Times

The New York attorney general announced an agreement that would require Xcel Energy, a builder of coal-fired plants, to disclose to investors the financial risks of global warming.

The coverage of sea ice in the Arctic could break the record low from last September, scientists said.

The government announced it would expand a national park on the island of Sumatra, which hosts endangered elephants and tigers.

The use of vegetation and rock to absorb rainwater on roofs is part of of a growing effort to reduce greenhouse gases, rainwater runoff and electricity demand in New York.

A growing cadre of consultants are specializing in helping developers and architects gain approval from the U.S. Green Building Council through its LEED certification program.

Clean energy’s dirty secret is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.

In Santa Barbara County, where an oil spill devastated the coastline in 1969, the opposition against offshore drilling may be softening.

A New Jersey company will announce a plan to use wind turbines to produce compressed air that can be stored underground or in tanks and released later to power generators during peak hours.

The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to develop a plan that could lead to Newtown Creek’s being named a federal Superfund site.

A trailblazer in the field of eco-advice columnists, Umbra Fisk serves as a sensible big sister to the growing tribe of the environmentally aware.

Twelve states are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for violating the federal Clean Air Act by refusing to control greenhouse gas emissions at oil refineries.

New technology is pushing down prices and reversing conventional wisdom that U.S. fields were in decline.

The goal of the conference is to foster “a science without secrets and without borders,” mixing disciplines and cultures, in the hopes of propelling breakthroughs.

Those interested in protecting the Pacific salmon population say proposed mineral mining may endanger them.

A planned removal of two of the three dams, and the building of a fish run around the third, will serve the goal of helping to restore the struggling Atlantic salmon population.

Eight organizations called Wednesday for Congress and the next president to spend more on climate science.

The federal appeals court ruling is the most recent in a series of judicial setbacks to the Bush administration’s efforts to reshape federal policies under the Clean Air Act.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is seeking to put wind turbines on New York City’s bridges and skyscrapers and in its waters as part of a push to develop renewable energy.

Nina V. Fedoroff is science adviser to the secretary of state and contends that genetically modified foods help the environment.

The U.S.S. Oriskany was sunk by the Navy in May 2006 under a pilot program to convert decommissioned vessels into artificial reefs.