With hurricane season in full swing, NOAA's new resource for identifying historical hurricane tracks may be a useful tool.

This fall the US Green Building Council expects to launch its rating system for residential construction.

As beach season crests in August, many swimmers will want to know whether, or how much, their favorite beach is contaminated.

There are at least 61 sites in CO, ID, MT, NM, and WY that naturally contain some form of asbestos, according to a report released July 9, 2007,by the US Geological Survey.

Scientists advising the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on air pollution issues are criticizing EPA higher-ups for ignoring their scientific counsel. Specifically, they are accusing the Bush Administration of excising science from the process the agency uses to determine how clean the air we breathe should be. The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) challenges EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson.

On June 22, Ontario Education Minister Kathleen Wynne announced that as of January 2008, all elementary and secondary schools in the Canadian province will provide environmental education.

Preliminary results from a Montana air quality study suggest that replacing older wood-burning stoves and fireplaces with cleaner-burning, EPA-certified models can substantially reduce airborne fine particulates.

On July 27, 2007, the Bush administration released (three years overdue) the 4th U.S. "Climate Action Report" to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Across the globe and in almost everyone's backyard many information technology (IT) companies and managers are growing more conscious of the energy consumption.

Power plants are under the gun as federal and state legislators and regulators haggle over how to address climate change and energy production issues.