The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted to approve (4-1) a final rule interpreting factors to be considered when seeking a civil penalty amount for knowing violations of CPSC laws.

AP - Talks on a new global climate change accord, bogged down for years in contested negotiations among nearly 200 countries, will increasingly move outside the sluggish U.N. framework and focus on a streamlined group of countries, special U.N. envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland said Tuesday.

A major species of plankton that produces an environmental poison known to threaten fish life as well as humans would pose a greater environmental threat when fertilized with iron, according to a team of American and Canadian scientists.

The motivation to create the new ArmorLite compact fluorescent light bulb came to Tom Irvine, the chief executive of Florida-based Clear-Lite Holdings, after a lamp was knocked over in his 5-year-old son’s bedroom, breaking the C.F.L. bulb.

Climate change has led to higher concentrations of mercury, DDT and PCBs in fish in the Mackenzie River near Fort Good Hope, and residents are renewing their push for a new drinking water source.

Creating and strengthening protected areas and indigenous lands is one of the most effective ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, according to a new paper.

As if the possible inundation of entire nations, mass extinction of species and collapsing agricultural production and were not enough - climate change also threatens the pension fund returns.

What started out as an experiment is now the biggest carbon storage project in North America. Anadarko has demonstrated how it can produce what it calls "green oil" by burying a large amount of man-made greenhouse gas.

Germany may delay some proposed cuts in solar incentives, granting a longer-than-expected grace period to players in the world's biggest solar market, according to a draft law obtained by Reuters on Monday.

Smart electric grids are championed as good for the economy and the environment. But some technology policy organizations worry that smart meters pose a potential threat to privacy and could be exploited.

Climate change has already wrought "pervasive, wide ranging" effects on the United States, and the federal government has "significant gaps" in its strategy to cope with those effects as they accelerate in the future, a White House task force will warn in a report on Tuesday.

Senators working on a major climate bill have a near impossible task: how to cut deals without looking like they’re cutting deals.

Climate activists are predicting a campaign of direct action against a new coal-fired power station that could be the UK's first to fit carbon-capture technology.

The race for the UN’s top climate change job is set to get more intense with the number of candidates in the fray increasing.

Research into climate change and farming practice lags behind what farmers already know, and must be stepped up, a parliamentary committee has found.

In a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, even if the sun commenced a very long period of low activity, it cannot put the brakes on the relentless rise of global temperatures caused by greenhouse gases.

While Arunava Majumdar says America urgently needs to come up with clean-energy “game changers,” until now there hasn’t been a systematic approach to develop them. As head of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, it's now his job to organize one.

Green business is now big business. Across the spectrum of American industries — construction to education; retail to health care; printing to manufacturing — environmental impact and energy efficiency are now key considerations.

A coalition representing governors of 29 states is urging the federal government to take steps to boost wind energy – such as a renewable electricity standard requiring utilities to produce at least 10 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2012.

Top Japanese carmakers Toyota and Nissan helped set up a group to standardize fast-charge stations for electric cars on Monday in a bid to promote the spread of the zero-emission vehicles.