Washington, May 18 : Are your husbands reluctant to do house work? Well, then you might want to shut your television sets forever, for researchers at the University of New Hampshire have shown that men, in particular, are influenced by TV commercials that more often portray them in a career environment than doing domestic...

Washington, May 18 : A new study has surprisingly linked personal care products like anti-bacterial soaps and cleaning agents to environmental pollution and human health...

Posted on: Sunday, 18 May 2008, 06:00 CDT By Gangloff, Deborah We have to change how we conduct the country's most important business: restoring the natural world and its connection to people. The...

Posted on: Sunday, 18 May 2008, 06:00 CDT By Anonymous If trees indeed sing in the wind, they're singing the praises of Grammy award-winning rock band Linkin Park, which continues to find innovative...

Posted on: Sunday, 18 May 2008, 06:00 CDT By Schwab, Jim Careful forethought is required if a community wants to plant and maintain a sustainable urban forest. Planning and maintaining trees in a...

Residents of Naples, fed up with the stench caused by months of uncollected rubbish, have used the waste to barricade streets to protest the long-running crisis, Italian television reported. Other...

Posted on: Sunday, 18 May 2008, 03:00 CDT By Vaira, Douglas Revitalizing cities through the rehabilitation of urban forests and greenery? ACT can dig it. With help from nearly half a million...

MSNBC Publishing in the journal Nature this week, a NASA-led team of scientists has come up with what it said is the first study to show a direct link between humans, climate change and impacts.The...

JUNEAU, Alaska - The lawyers aren't clearing their calendars just yet, but the oil industry is bracing for some courtroom battles to maintain its stake in Alaska's oil-rich fields now that the...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Maverick oilman T. Boone Pickens' plan for a mammoth wind farm in the Texas Panhandle is a $2 billion bet that Congress will extend a tax credit critical to the environmentally...

MUMBAI: More than 25,000 trees uprooted to make way for developmental projects have not been replanted. This is because those who uproot the trees can't be bothered about replanting them, and ...

Posted on: Saturday, 17 May 2008, 06:00 CDT By Kafia Hosh, The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va. May 17--Last week's tornado damaged homes and scattered debris across a swath of southern Stafford...

Posted on: Saturday, 17 May 2008, 06:00 CDT By Sara Peach, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. May 17--CHAPEL HILL -- JoAnna Barnes noticed something odd while running errands last winter: a stand of...

Posted on: Saturday, 17 May 2008, 06:00 CDT By Nick Sortal, South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 17--A typical middle-schooler's main concern might be staying under the monthly text-message limit. Not...

ONLY the environment will suffer from a Federal Budget decision to limit who receives a rebate for installing solar panels, Federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson says. Only households earning...

Mumbai, India: Mumbai's second international airport could soon come up in suburban Navi Mumbai as the Union Environment Ministry finally backed the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists warn. "The public does not...

and the company's Vero Beach resort have now been certified as meeting voluntary environmental guidelines. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection established the Florida Green...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has issued an executive order to encourage state workers in the Sacramento area to adopt alternative work schedules and transportation options to relieve the congestion...

GIFU (Kyodo) Major trucking firm Seino Transportation Co. filed a theft complaint with police Friday against Greenpeace Japan, a day after the conservation group lodged a criminal complaint against...

WARREN, Mich. -- The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that about 7,000 Warren homeowners can proceed with a class action lawsuit claiming their property was damaged by trees the city planted back in...

said Friday that its Iowa utility subsidiary plans to spend $85 million to install emissions control equipment at a coal-fired power plant in Lansing, Iowa. The announcement comes a day after two...

Olympia is the safest midsized city in the country, according to a survey released by an insurance company. The Seattle-Tacoma area is the nation's 17th-safest area when it comes to large cities....

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has released $597,000 to improve security at several sites in New Mexico with critical infrastructure and resources, and to train and equip emergency...

Symbol: CST Shares Outstanding: 32 895 779 QUEBEC, May 16 /CNW Telbec/ - CO2 Solution Inc. ("CO2 Solution") announces that it has accepted subscriptions totaling $2 321 400 as part of the...

The on-going round of negotiations in Accra between the government of Ghana and the EU aimed at establishing a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) on trade in timber will end by close of day today....

awarded $245,000 to Clark County Solid Waste Management District to expand the capacity of an existing composting facility, which will process 13,000 tons of material per year and create five new...

The region can and should take advantage of developing and promoting the clean, renewable energy of off-shore wind power, according to a report by...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - In a cramped control room, a bright yellow sticker cautions workers about critical radiation alarms. Now a novelty stuck on a wall between dials that haven't spun in decades,...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - When it comes to comfort, Kirk Christie's cows have it all - a new barn, a flat-screen television and waterbeds. That's because of the dairy farmer's philosophy that a happy...

CANOVANAS, Puerto Rico (AP) - For thoroughbred racehorses in Puerto Rico, success can be a matter of life and death. Many losers don't make it off the racetrack grounds alive. More than 400 horses,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Faced with drought and a jump in consumption, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has called for cleansing sewage for drinking water and imposing restrictions for watering lawns and washing...

Pelli Clark Pelli Architects , was determined to meet the EPA's standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency in a commercial building. It was one of five projects in...

BANGKOK, 16 May 2008 (IRIN) - Cyclone Nargis – and the devastating tidal surge that followed – has highlighted the potential tragic consequences of pursuing rapid economic expansion while...

The ancestors of humans, apes and monkeys may have taken to the trees because of their small body size. Scientists have long wondered why early primates inhabited forest canopies, given that...

The Tasmanian Greens are calling for the State Government to include a solar system rebate in next month's State Budget. Under Tuesday's Federal Budget, families earning more than $100,000 will not...

One of the councils covering the Tarkine wilderness in Tasmania's far north-west has given the green light for a tourism road in the area. Forestry Tasmania proposed the $20 million sealed road six...

Rancho Cordova, Calif.-based WIAA Insurance Services has expanded its strategic partnership with San Diego-based Barney & Barney LLC to include a specialty line insurance program with its...

US: May 16, 2008 WASHINGTON - Congress' new agriculture bill, which looks certain to become law, would tighten rules for lumber imports in an effort to discourage environmentally destructive,...

Solar energy companies are reporting significant losses and the Greens are warning of the collapse of Australia's photovoltaic supply industry after the Federal Government's Budget announcement that...

The Land Court in Brisbane has set a date to hear a resource company's application to mine part of a Cape York property which had been set aside for the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve. Cape Alumina...

Continuing hot weather and light winds will result in another Spare the Air Day on Friday, according to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Thursday was the first such day this year, as...

State Parliament has passed a bill requiring all Queensland mines to adhere to the same environmental protection standards. Until last night, nine of the largest mines in Queensland were covered by...

AUSTIN (AP) - Storms in the Austin area knocked down several large trees near the Texas Capitol and blew out windows in the dome. Seven trees, including a large live oak, were uprooted and...

Smaller primates expend no more energy climbing trees than they do walking, a finding that might help explain why some of the earliest ancestors to humans and apes took to the trees, said a group of...

TSX Trading Symbol: NAL.UN CALGARY, May 15 /CNW/ - Newalta Income Fund ("Newalta") (TSX:NAL.UN) today announced that it has declared a cash distribution of 18.5 cents per trust unit for the month...

Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 15:00 CDT WASHINGTON, May 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Congress today passed landmark legislation to address the global illegal logging crisis....

Lima - The environmental organization Greenpeace protested biofuel production at the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, in south- eastern Peru on Thursday, claiming ethanol will have a severe impact on...

By JUDITH KOHLERASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER DENVER -- Indian pueblos, Revolutionary and Civil War battlefields and trails used by Lewis and Clark are in jeopardy because the Forest Service lacks the...

Beale Air Force Base in Yuba County. The land consists of a 218-acre "rail-accessible development opportunity," 19-acre wastewater treatment plant and 97-acre light-industrial site. ...