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The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a militant group that has made good on threats in the past, has vowed to launch a major attack on Nigeria's oil infrastructure.

A new study from the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates that older ice is giving way to younger ice. While this may seem odd, it is drastically important when it comes to the conditions being suffered by our polar regions.

Reawakening rumors he will run for President, Bloomberg pitched a bold national plan to charge companies a pollution tax based on the amount of environment-killing greenhouse gases they produce. "If you want less of something, every economist will tell you the same thing: Make it more expensive," the billionaire businessman told 100 other mayors.

A sun-drenched town in Australia's north hopes to use only solar power in two years after being chosen as the site for a solar thermal power station. Cloncurry, which boasts recording Australia's hottest day, would be able to generate electricity on rare cloudy days and at night from the station which runs off heat stored in graphite blocks.

The device, dubbed the Seadog, is designed to capture ocean-wave energy from swells or waves to pump seawater into storage tanks. The water then could flow through hydroelectric turbines to provide energy.

The Indonesian government is recruiting other developing nations in an attempt to pressure richer governments to provide incentives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Some see the government’s request for money as a type of environmental hostage taking, and many feel that Indonesia’s request smacks of hypocrisy in light of its own poor record.

A new animation from NASA shows that Arctic sea ice loss over the past 28 years has been enormous... with potentially devastating consequences for the larger global environment.

A group of historic tree fanatics is taking genetic samples from the tops of California redwoods today as the first step towards cloning old-growth redwoods.

At least there will be a place for all those $200 OLPC laptops and shredded spam documents

An energy-saving technology takes recycling to new heights, but it has an image problem.

Do you ever walk around with the vague feeling that you're going to die soon? That could be because -- according a recent study -- the Earth might be due for a catastrophic mass extinction.

A population of White Bearded De Brazza’s monkeys were sighted recently in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, far from their original homes, raising concerns over climate change. The monkeys were spotted in a forest area that had dried out as the climate in Kenya became more arid.

A voting statistic recently aired on CNN's Situation Room that reminded me of the massive power held by the leaders of the US Evangelical Christian movement.Of the 126 million votes cast in the last presidential election, 24% of voters identified themselves as white/born again Christians, and 78% of that demographic voted Republican.

It’s powered by a 1 Kw Motor Wheel, takes advantage of regenerative breaking, and will get you 62 miles on pure electric. Top speed is limited to 28mph — but with a little tinkering I’m sure you could hack this into a death wish of some kind.

Every time it rained, Majora Carter cringed. "I lived in mortal terror whenever I thought it was going to rain," Dr. Carter says, remembering how the rainwater seeped from the street into her Bronx brownstone. Then she and her husband, James Burling Chase, realized that the source of the problem wasn't on the ground, but on the roof.

There’s no need to rehash what we already know. The Arctic is Melting. It’s a fact that we are going to have to come to grips with. Shipping lanes are being changed, animals and natives are being displaced, and ice is disappearing faster than my digg friends when I attempt to swing the conversation away from bodily functions to politics.

The world’s largest wind farm is growing South Dakota, California could see the worlds largest solar power plant, and now Singapore is in the foray with landing the largest solar manufacturing facility the world’s ever seen. A Norwegian company called Renewable Energy Corporation will build the complex, which will be completed in different stages to incorporate wafer, cell, and module production.

Recently, the Wildfires in Southern California have been widely broadcasted across the news. At the same time, recent news coverage has also looked at drought conditions which are being felt in Georgia and North Carolina. While these two are be peripherally linked in other ways, it makes some sense to look at these issues from the perspective of sustainable building.

With all respect (and perhaps some thanks) to Mr. Gore, taking action on climate change is now a major political issue as well as a moral issue. This is particularly true for U.S. voters this year, who are trying to decide on their nation’s next president