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Speaking to the U.N., Presidents Hu Jintao of China and Barack Obama acknowledged that a deal is an important goal, but also stressed their own needs.

A ruling overturns an earlier decision that any action should be taken by the legislative branch, not the judicial one.

A conference that generated the equivalent of 461 tons of carbon dioxide will end up helping a rural power project in India.

A sharply divided European Union failed Tuesday to protect the threatened bluefin tuna.

The decision could lead to a ban on the planting of the beets, which have been widely adopted by American farmers.

Pacific Gas and Electric, a major California utility, is withdrawing from the United States Chamber of Commerce because of the chamber’s approach to global warming.

Environmentalists succeeded in blocking a 5,130-acre solar power farm that would have risen in the Mojave Desert.

The world watches a coal-fired power plant’s effort to capture and bury some of the carbon dioxide it creates.

The nation’s marine and Great Lakes shores are administered by a hodgepodge of federal, state or other agencies with often-conflicting goals.

Farm waste, the biggest polluter of American rivers, is largely unregulated by many of the laws designed to prevent pollution and protect drinking water.

In Alabama, stimulus funds are ammo in the battle against a pest on the scale of kudzu.

A judge restored protections for about 600 bears in and around Yellowstone National Park, citing a decline in their food supply caused by climate change.

The global recession as well as government actions were cited as factors in the falloff in greenhouse gases.

Dr. Slobodkin, a co-author of a seminal paper informally known as “The World Is Green,” is credited with helping to transform ecology by using quantitative data to test models of nature.

As nations gather for a major summit meeting on climate change, none want to take the lead in fighting for significant international targets.

Electronic devices are the fastest-growing source of power demand in the world, but there is resistance to efficiency.

Denmark’s minister of climate and energy will host United Nations-sponsored global climate treaty negotiations in December.

A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Borlaug developed high-yielding crop varieties that helped to avert famines worldwide.

Two German ships are poised to complete, for the first time, a commercial shipment transit from Asia to Europe over the waters of the Arctic north of Russia.

A project that tracks garbage through the waste disposal system over the next three months will help give people a concrete sense of their impact on the environment.