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Canada, one of the world's largest beef producers has issued new dietary guidelines in an effort to promote healthy eating. And beef is no longer on the menu.

A new experiment showed a simple way to save endangered chimpanzees in Uganda and slow the rate of global warming and carbon dioxide emissions.

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology and University of Southern California believe they have found a way to bring oceanic carbon sequestration closer to reality, a discovery which may pave the way to reducing global warming emissions in the atmosphere.

Marin and San Mateo Counties in Northern California and the City of Imperial Beach in San Diego County allege that the companies had foreknowledge that fossil fuel industries precipitated climate change and are responsible for covering the costs of adaptation and mitigation. 

New York aking first step toward charging for garbage collection

New York City wants to turn parking lots into solar-power plants

Rising temperatures will cause the poorest U.S. counties to suffer the most, even in the wealthiest nation in the world. Most are in the Southeast.

A panel of top financial institutions and firms has launched guidelines pushing for more information about the impact of global warming.

Keystone XL is facing a new challenge: The oil producers and refiners the pipeline was originally meant to serve aren’t interested in it anymore.

The ruling, on a regulation to restrict emissions from new oil and gas wells, signaled that President Trump’s plans to simply delay environmental actions are likely to face an uphill battle.

Diageo says it will increase the use of alternative materials in packaging as part of its ‘innovation agenda’: particularly with attention to plastic packaging that meets its sustainable packaging commitments. 

"It's coming at us faster than we thought."

HP teamed up with Thread to make ink cartridges with plastic from bottles recycled in Haiti. The initiative brings jobs to some of the world's most vulnerable populations.

I was reassigned to an unrelated job in the accounting office that collects royalty checks from fossil fuel companies.

The E-Waste Problem The United States threw away a whopping 41.8 million tons of electronic waste in 2014, of which only 12% was recycled properly. Considering

565 Broome SoHo ooks to be one of first in NYC to earn Zero Waste certificate

California's landmark cap and trade program was approved with Republican votes, marking a significant shift in the GOP's position on climate change.

Going plastic-free is the most ocean-friendly choice.

A iceberg weighing one trillion tons has broken away from western Antarctica, according to UK-based research team Project MIDAS.

Photo from ellenmacarthur.org This past Easter, New York City reached a high of 87 degrees, marking the holiday as the second hottest Easter in NYC. These warme

Building on its success marketing egg-free cookie dough and sandwich spreads, the Silicon Valley food technology pacesetter Hampton Creek plans to have have laboratory meat on the market by the end of 2018.

As policy makers, scientists, environmental activists and others work to convey the importance of climate change, some are beginning to focus less on saving the polar bears and more on global warming’s effect on human health. Doing this may enable organizations to garner more public support for their environmental initiatives.

Virgin Atlantic successfully dropped its CO2 emissions from more than 5.2 metric tons to slightly over 4 metric tons from a series of carbon savings initiatives including purchase of a multi-billion dollar fleet investment in Boeing 787 aircraft, single-engine taxiing, real-time weather technology to optimize flight planning, and rigorous weight management ... Read more »