WiSE - Women in Science and Engineering

The Obama administration, in an effort to curb environmental damage from surface coal mining, announced plans to scrutinize the applications in four states.

The first legal wolf hunt in decades has yielded few reported legal kills, but officials remain optimistic that the numbers will increase with cooler weather.

German officials are reviewing the safety of a plant that extracts heat from below the earth’s surface, an operation that scientists say set off an earthquake last month.

This book argues that city dwellers are ahead of the green curve.

The Obama administration warned that developed and developing nations remained divided in talks on reducing greenhouse gases and that time was running out before United Nations treaty negotiations.

A deepwater Pacific fish used in fast-food sandwiches and sushi has touched off arguments over the sustainability of the catch.

The turtles face many challenges because they must share their breeding ground with throngs of beachgoers.

Four months after gray wolves were removed from the endangered species list, a judge denied a request by environmentalists to stop the hunts.

New research suggests that atrazine may be dangerous at lower concentrations than previously thought, particularly for fetuses.

A cousin of the still-evolving LED bulb is the organic light-emitting diode, which can give light from a sheet 0.07 inches thick.

The crisis has underscored the problems facing Indian agriculture as the population expands at the same time that water resources come under greater pressure.

A concern that development tied to the discovery of oil has given predators like the arctic fox and gulls an advantage.

A few genes seem to have guided the great evolutionary burst of flowering plants.

A niche publisher aims to spread knowledge, and faces challenges.

As the community of nations prepares to negotiate a climate treaty, the drumbeat for sharpening the details and a framework for helping poor nations implement it is quickening.

Across 400 acres in Brooklyn that served as landfills — parcels that are still listed as toxic waste sites — 33,000 trees and shrubs and a variety of grasses are taking root.

Two radio station towers near Seattle that have generated intense local opposition were toppled in an act of sabotage that appeared to be linked to the radical Earth Liberation Front.

Mr. Goldsmith was something of a utopian, something of a polemicist and, not surprisingly, something of a polarizing figure as well.