Giant turbines that produce renewable energy are a familiar sight on land but the towering structures are now performing a similar task at the bottom of the sea.

New environmental controls on natural gas "fracking" are both needed and affordable, the International Energy Agency says.

The first-ever study of climate change's regional impacts showed a significant increase in the number of extremely hot days in the greater Los Angeles area by mid-century.

Bottlenose dolphins off Louisiana’s coast are severely ill, while deep-sea corals show signs of tissue damage—just two findings in a slew of studies two years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

From high above the earth, an astronaut reveals the latest report card on the health of the planet, painting an alarming image of over-consumption and exploitation.

A marine expedition of environmentalists has confirmed the bad news it feared -- the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" extends even further than previously known.

That's the paradoxical scenario gaining credibility among many climate scientists. The thawing of sea ice covering the Arctic could disturb or even halt large currents in the Atlantic Ocean. Without the vast heat that these ocean currents deliver--comparable to the power generation of a million nucl...

John Paul says, at first, he couldn't believe his own scientific data showing toxic microscopic marine organisms in the Gulf of Mexico. He repeated the field test. A colleague did his own test. All the results came back the same: toxic.

Four billion dollar of trade will be lost if the oil spill off the Mumbai coast is not dealt with by the weekend. The situation has already prompted exporters and importers to ask the government for financial relief.

A quarter of Russian crops have been lost in the recent drought, leaving many farms on the brink of bankruptcy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.

Oil well in the middle of a sugarcane field blew out last night. Oil and natural gas are shooting into the air. Oil is coming down like rain a mile away. This is in Assumption Parish Louisiana.

R.J. Connors takes the reader on a fascinating voyage through time and nature, and shows the causes and effects of the threats we face. He explains the complex scientific issues in language that makes clear the results of the studies being conducted in the far corners of the globe. The alarms are r...