California was enacting legislation Monday that for the first time will reduce the amount of greenhouse gases coming form the tailpipes of all passenger vehicles sold in the state, even the beloved

The orders arrive fax and e-mail 24 hours a day from pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and academic scientists. And every day at Integrated DNA Technologies an army of machines responds

This is Europe's second-largest wilderness, a high plateau of canyons and snowy former volcanoes linked by swards of treeless tundra inhabited by thousands of reindeer and geese. It is also the

It a letter that attacks what is says is his administration's failure to address the looming crisis of global warming, the attorneys general of 11 states have written to President George W. Bush

From a distance of 100 feet, the Wolf River below the dam appeared to be boiling from bank to bank. This was the height of an annual spawning season about 40 miles west of Green Bay, and the sturgeon

It's already too late for the United States to lead the world in the fight against global warming. President George W. Bush saw to that last year, when he abandoned his promise to make power plants

Half of the Everglades has been eliminated. Now the rest is supposed to be resuscitated. But at the western frontier of Miami sprawl, rock-mining companies are digging up another 21000 acres (8500

A wide ranging survey of world eco-systems shows that warmer temperatures have sparked a host of epidemics in plants and animals, suggesting that global warming could ravage the planet's ecology and

In Alaska, rising temperatures, whether caused by greenhouse gas emissions or nature in a prolonged mood swing, are not a topic of debate or an abstraction. Mean temperatures have risen by 5 degrees

An intensive effort by a bipartisan group of senators to craft detailed rules governing research on cloned human embryos is nearly complete and could be ready for a floor debate and vote within one