British Report: Failure to Curb Global Warming Disastrou...

A British experts report on climate change warns that failure to curb global warming could trigger worldwide economic devastation...

Photographer Focuses Her Lens on Rare Alaskan Forest

The Tongass rainforest in the far northwestern U.S. state of Alaska is one of the rarest ecosystems on earth. Salmon play a critica...

Gasoline Distillation System Cuts Auto Emissions

The upcoming edition of the journal Environmental Science and Technology features an article on a new fuel system that would help...

Deforestation Decreased Over the Past 10 Years

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says deforestation has decreased over the past ten years. But it still con...

Easy Solutions to Global Warming at our Fingertips

With so much information out there about global warming and the effects that are causing natural disasters, is there anything we as...

WHO Says Stricter Air Pollution Standards Can Save Lives

The World Health Organization says tighter restrictions on air pollution could save lives. For the first time, the world health b...

Global Warming Events

Global warming is a phenomenon that is way beyond and over the level of awareness of the man on the street, but whose impact is fel...

Blue Crab Science at the Smithsonian

Kristina Gjerde: Making law on the high seas

Pierwsze sprawozdanie na temat wpływu klimatu na Wielką ...

Climate change this century poses both risks and opportunities, according to the first comprehensive government assessment of i...

On Chesapeake Bay, an Island Saved from Sinking, Part 1

This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. And I'm Shirley Griffith. Today we tell about efforts to s...

Environmental Problems are Price of Progress in China

China's rapid economic growth has pulled millions of the country's residents out of poverty, but a new report says the environmenta...