WiSE - Women in Science and Engineering

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and French Space Agency President Yannick d'Escatha signed four agreements in support of U.S. and French space cooperation during a ceremony Thursday at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

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.

NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, who will command the next International Space Station mission, is using Twitter, a blog and short video clips to provide a unique, behind the scenes insight into his training in Russia.

NASA reported Thursday that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and entered its mapping orbit of the moon.

NASA has set media accreditation deadlines for the Ares I-X flight test targeted to launch Oct. 31 from Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered California to draw 33 percent of its electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind power by 2020.

The Obama administration affirmed basic elements of the Bush administration’s conservation effort in the Pacific Northwest.

NASA will preview the next space shuttle mission during a series of news briefings on Friday, Oct. 16, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA has selected six universities that serve large numbers of minority and underrepresented students to receive research grants totaling nearly $30 million.

A huge coal ash spill at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant last year devastated property values and tourism.

Hawaii is experimenting with renewable forms of energy that will allow the state to lessen its dependence on imported oil.

I.B.M. executives said the company had begun an effort to improve battery storage, and a future generation lithium-air battery might be the answer.

Drain water that used to go unwanted, creating a wetland in the Mexican desert, is now being considered to mitigate the Southwest’s water shortage.

Kansas officials are pushing for federal buyouts for the residents of Treece, which is on land contaminated from mining, after buyouts emptied a nearby town.

Complaints filed with the government say the Forest Stewardship Council is being undermined by an industry group that lacks credibility.

A devastating drought is sweeping across Kenya, imperiling agriculture and tourism as well as spawning ethnic conflict.

In the past five years, companies and workplaces have violated pollution laws more than 500,000 times. But most polluters have escaped punishment.

Van Jones, the White House’s environmental jobs “czar,” had come under scrutiny from Republicans and conservative critics for his past comments and affiliations.

A Massachusetts court rejected a couple’s proposal to build a windmill, highlighting the steep odds such plans face nationwide.