WiSE - Women in Science and Engineering

A federal appeals board has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider an air permit issued for a planned coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken to monitoring his children’s water usage in the shower.

The Environmental Protection Agency says the data would cover most of the greenhouse gases in the United States linked to global warming.

A closer look at the case of Alan Carlin, a global warming contrarian at the E.P.A., paints a more complicated case than has been widely publicized.

The president of the tiny Pacific island nation will announce a prohibition in waters covering a Texas-size area, a conservation official said.

The Innovative Partnerships Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington is offering an opportunity for the public to help shape the prize challenges the agency offers to America's future citizen-inventors.

A proposed nuclear waste repository project at Yucca Mountain in Nevada is no closer to a resolution.

In a worse-case projection, a Vietnamese government report says that more than one-third of the Mekong Delta could be submerged if sea levels were to rise by three feet.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed frozen water hiding just below the surface of mid-latitude Mars. The spacecraft's observations were obtained from orbit after meteorites excavated fresh craters on the Red Planet.

NASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon. Instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water molecules in amounts that are greater than predicted, but still relatively small.

NASA is inviting student teams to experience microgravity science by designing and building experiments to be conducted in a NASA drop tower.

NASA will hold a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 24, to discuss new science data from the moon collected during national and international space missions.

Progress on a global climate treaty may be difficult at a time when temperatures have been stable for a decade.

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.

NASA has selected nine scientific teams to work on future high-altitude balloon and sounding rocket payloads. The selected proposals address a wide range of astrophysical mysteries from dark matter and cosmic-ray antiprotons to studies of galaxy clusters and supernova remnants.