ecology

Since first being listed as endangered, the manatee population has rebounded to over 6,600 individuals.

For your typical, highly aware New Yorker, green living is about par of the course. They recycle, look for organic stuffs, conserve power, even compost.

We are used to hearing that if everyone lived in the same way as North Americans or Australians, we would need four or five planet Earths to sustain us.

Visionary landscape and urban designer Diana Balmori talks about creating cities that work with nature and about what inspires her.

In order to predict, and hopefully prevent, such fires in the future, we’ve looked at how far in advance they can be anticipated.

We first went to Churchill, Canada, to see its famous polar bears, whose life was being threatened by the vagaries of a civilization. We went to touch the space of their frontier, because we knew that their continued presence on earth represents a critical buoy to our future.

A world without elephants, even a world with severely reduced populations only incites more violence and convulsions across the entire body of the African and Asian continent.

As first glance, asking whether global warming results in more snow may seem like a silly question because obviously, if it gets warm enough, there is no snow.

At the centre of the debate is how we define wilderness – and what people can use it for.

Ten years on from the devastating Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami, our understanding of very large earthquakes has grown enormously. From satellites monitoring changes on the Earth’s surface to drilling deep below the ocean floor, new techniques are constantly being developed to help us figure out why earthquakes are sometimes so big, and so deadly.

Animals that regulate their body temperature through the external environment may have the resilience to survive some climate change. But they may not be able to keep up with rapid change, say researchers.

Bob Lilienfeld is editor of “The ULS Report,” a newsletter aimed at spreading the benefits of source reduction (ULS means Use Less Stuff).

LOS ANGELES—California Governor Jerry Brown signed three bills into law on Sunday, which aim to support the growth of electric vehicles in the state and reduce air pollution.

About three quarters of New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings, of which the city has many. In fact, the number of buildings over 50,000 square feet in New York City is higher than Minneapolis, Austin, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Seattle, and Chicago’s numbers combined.

“Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Former U.S. vice president Al Gore invoked the Biblical passage on Thursday during an interfaith meeting on climate change, urging local clergy to mobilize their congregations in the cause for environmental justice.

NEW YORK—Dozens of elementary, middle, and high school students lobbied City Council members Tuesday to support charging a fee for disposable bags.