Tar Sands Action, an environmental organization responsible for organizing the massive Keystone XL pipeline protests, said the Obama administration's decision to delay approval for the project is a major success for the green movement.
Ashley Portero
Nov 12, 2011
The indigenous tribes of tropical rainforests and other protected areas from across the world can help conserve forests when they have right to use the forests and are not forced out, according to new World Bank study.
Sanskrity Sinha
Nov 11, 2011
Every summer for three months, the Hudson Bay ice breaks up and ships load Canadian Prairie grain for export, putting more than 100 people to work in the tiny northern Manitoba town of Churchill.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 11, 2011
Arab Spring and Royal Wedding were on Wednesday deemed the top phrases of 2011, while late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is the year's top name, according to a global survey of the English language.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 10, 2011
The flooding in Thailand highlights an even larger problem facing the nation: Bangkok is sinking.
Mark Johanson
Nov 10, 2011
The company charged with conducting an environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline had a previous financial relationship with the project developer, TransCanada.
Ashley Portero
Nov 08, 2011
Deaths and health problems from floods, drought and other U.S. disasters related to climate change cost an estimated $14 billion over the last decade, researchers said on Monday.
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Nov 07, 2011
A total of six climate change-related events in the US during the period 2000-2009 accounted for around $14 billion in lost lives and health costs; researchers mentioned in a report on Monday.
Monami Thakur
Nov 07, 2011
Pigeonpea - a minor agricultural crop more common in rural backyards than plowed fields, reached a milestone Sunday when Indian and Chinese researchers announced the decoding of the plant's genome.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 07, 2011
Rush Limbaugh said Friday global warming is a hoax -- an attempt by ideological liberals to codify liberalism as science.
Joseph Lazzaro
Nov 07, 2011
Thousands of protesters opposed to a new oil pipeline from Canada to the United States circled the White House grounds Sunday to press President Barack Obama to reject the project for environmental reasons.
Eric Linton
Nov 06, 2011
Harold and Kumar return to theaters on Friday in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, the third film in the comedy franchise that includes Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.
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Nov 02, 2011
As the world population reaches 7 billion on Oct. 31, we take a look at the impact the rising population will have on the world's megacities.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 31, 2011
Nobody dreams of a white Halloween, but millions of people throughout the Northeast got that and more on Saturday when a northeaster dumped several inches of snow and toppled trees and power lines throughout the region.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 31, 2011
The world's seven billionth baby was born Monday in the Philippines.
Bhaskar Prasad
Oct 31, 2011
A Canadian senator has launched a campaign to replace the industrious beaver with the indomitable polar bear as Canada's national emblem, saying the incumbent is a dentally defective rat.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 28, 2011
Canada's fifth-largest independent oil producer, warned that full-year production would miss its own expectations, and reported a drop of almost two-thirds in quarterly profit on lower production rates at some assets.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 27, 2011
The federal government on Wednesday announced that it is now protecting 140 square miles of California shoreline for the endangered black abalone ? a type of shellfish once common in Southern California tide pools.
Laura Matthews
Oct 26, 2011
The large ice masses in southwest China are also decreasing, coinciding with warming temperatures, according to research published Wednesday.
Trevor Stokes
Oct 26, 2011
Many are still skeptics to the global warming phenomenon, but a new Berkeley study appears to confirm the existence of the climate change.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 24, 2011
NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002.
Anthony Myers
Oct 23, 2011
Win a chance to go behind the scenes at Vandenberg Air Force Base and watch the launch of the NPP satellite, Oct. 27.
Anthony Myers
Oct 23, 2011
