"The Senate climate debate cranks up this week with a series of hearings and high-level meetings aimed at producing legislation that can be matched up with last month's House-passed bill."

Urban farmer Will Allen, half a mile from Milwaukee's biggest housing project, is different from others in the good-food movement.

Terry Tamminen, former environmental advisor to California's Gov. Schwarzenegger, is a key player on global climate change now.

The National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC, is playing a growing role in understanding weather and climate change.

"A plan to restore salmon runs on California's Sacramento River could help revive killer whale populations 700 miles to the north in Puget Sound."

"San Joaquin Valley farms are laying off workers and letting fields lie fallow as their water ration falls."

"TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Long dependent on wellwater and supplies sent hundreds of miles by canal from the Colorado River, this desert city will soon harvest some of its 12 inches of annual rainfall to help bolster its water resources."

Voting with the GOP might seem like an easy political choice for Idaho Democrat Walt Minick. But could it be a problem when he needs clout to help the state?

"Studies Are Homing in on Which Particles Polluting the Air Are Most Sickening -- and Why"

The EPA says North Carolina Has More 'High-Hazard' Sites Than Any Other; the Industry Calls Them Safe.