The plan is audacious and controversial: A growing group of American environmentalists wants to provide corridors linking the many wilderness areas all across North America, preserving ecosystems and

A certain amount of disorder has broken out around the Joe Tsien, the biologist who announced this month that he had created a smarter strain of mouse by genetically altering a gene for

GALABOVO, Bulgaria: An energy crisis brews as potential hydropower is largely misused

While Russia and Ukraine sparred over natural gas supplies in January, leaving swathes of Eastern and Central Europe shivering in the winter chill, another energy crisis was brewing in the Balkans.

Russian crude oil stopped flowing to Western Europe through a major pipeline across Belarus. It was not immediately clear who turned off the tap. The head of Russia's oil pipeline monopoly today

Energi Mega Persada, the second-largest publicly traded Indonesian oil company, almost halved its natural gas production after villagers occupied a processing plant on an island off East Java,

A shortage of farmland and a government priority to grow food crops for China, the most populous country, could hamper plans by the country's oil companies to produce biofuels on a large scale. Rules

Democratic lawmakers have signaled sharp discontent with the exceptions President George W. Bush attached to the new U.S.-India nuclear cooperation law, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told

In a new signal that Russia has toughened its position on energy sales to Europe, an adviser to President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow had no intension of observing guidelines in the European

The leaders of six Gulf countries have announced that they intend jointly to develop nuclear energy capability, sparking new concerns of an impending nuclear race in the oil-rich Gulf just as the