msnbc.com: Environment

Steel town plans return to its green roots

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:21:44 GMT

Residents of Vandergrift, Pa., are reviving the town architect's vision and making the community environmentally sustainable for the 21st century and beyond.

Architect - Steel - Sustainability - Business - Construction and Maintenance

On climate emissions cuts, costs may vary

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:45:13 GMT

Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say.

Barack Obama - United States - Carbon dioxide - Pollution - Environment

U.S. ecoterror suspect in China jail

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:58:01 GMT

An American man wanted for ecoterrorism attacks in the western United States has been sentenced to three years in a Chinese prison for making illegal drugs.

United States - Illegal drug trade - Prison - Western United States - China

Much less ice for polar bears, expert says

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:56:29 GMT

Arctic sea ice conditions are even worse than feared after a survey found that ice detected as older and thicker by satellites is actually thin and fragile, a prominent researcher says.

Sea ice - Polar bear - Polar region - Bear - Science and Environment

Brazil: ‘Gringos’ must pay to save Amazon

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:52:13 GMT

Brazil's president says "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting Western nations have caused more past environmental destruction than loggers.

Brazil - Deforestation - South America - Travel and Tourism - Environment

Sea turtle sacrifices? Indonesia says no way

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:20:34 GMT

Indonesia has rejected a push by Bali for rare turtles to be legally slain in Hindu ceremonies, siding with conservationists of the protected reptiles against religious advocates.

Indonesia - Bali - Sea turtle - Turtle - Animals

Australia town to shoot invading camels

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:58:33 GMT

Australian authorities plan to corral and kill about 6,000 wild camels after they overran an Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies.

Australia - Water - Oceania - Society and Culture - Business

China vows to slow carbon emissions growth

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:58:29 GMT

China announced plans to cut its carbon emissions by up to 45 percent as measured against its economic output.

Wen Jiabao - China - Asia - United States - People's Republic of China

Newsweek: Is carbon sequestration really green?

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:44:10 GMT

Carbon sequestration sounds like a perfect solution to America's energy woes: capture CO2 emitted by power plants in the atmosphere and store it in the ground. But as the technology to perfect carbon sequestration advances, it continues to face an unlikely source of opposition: environmentalists.

Environment - United States - Carbon dioxide - Carbon Cycle - Carbon sequestration

U.S. sets climate target ahead of summit

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:27:33 GMT

President Obama will attend the U.N. climate summit next month in Denmark, taking with him a pledge to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020, the White House says.

Barack Obama - White House - Copenhagen - United States - Politics

Nissan hatches plan to boost battery cars

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:38:13 GMT

Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is among those who believe the public may get charged up by the switch to electric power, if the new battery cars are affordable and fun to drive.

Carlos Ghosn - Nissan Motors - Electricity - Nissan - Business

S. Africa's baboon gangs get more aggressive

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:54:29 GMT

Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.

South Africa - Africa - Crime statistics - Government - Society and Culture

‘Flotilla’ of icebergs sails toward New Zealand

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:36:20 GMT

Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that hundreds of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday.

New Zealand - Pacific Ocean - Iceberg - Oceania - Antarctic

GOP opens probe into climate science e-mails

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:00:54 GMT

Congressional Republicans are investigating e-mails stolen from a British climate change research center that they say show scientists attempting to suppress data that does not support man-made global warming.

Climate change - GlobalWarming - Environment - Republican Party - Research

Video: One man’s trash is another man’s house

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:15:23 GMT

Nov. 24: Each year, builders in the U.S. generate 31 million tons of construction waste. NBC’s Anne Thompson has a story about how one man has come up with a way to find new life for some of that material. (Today Show)

NBC - Today - United States - US - Arts and Entertainment

CO2 levels rising as climate talks loom

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:46:13 GMT

Researchers at a key observatory in Hawaii say global warming gases are building in the atmosphere at record levels from emissions that match worst-case scenarios.

Global warming - Carbon dioxide - Climate change - Environment - Hawaii

Warming’s impacts worsened since Kyoto

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:15:40 GMT

Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.

Global warming - Climate change - Environment - Activism - Opposing Views

5,600 new species found in deep sea

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:40:43 GMT

A new report records 17,650 species living below 656 feet, the point where sunlight ceases. The findings were the latest update on a 10-year census of marine life.

Marine biology - Ocean - Species - Recreation - Outdoors

Quiz: Test your wildlife knowledge

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:01:19 GMT

What causes breeding problems in captive cheetahs? What effect does global warming have on coral? Test your environmental knowledge here.

Global warming - Environment - Climate Change - Kids and Teens - Opposing Views

Video: Hollywood goes green

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:33:35 GMT

Nov. 22: CNBC's Julia Boorstin takes us behind the scenes to show us how Hollywood is going green. (Other)

CNBC - Television - United States - Arts - Programs

Predatory fish nearing Great Lakes ecosystem

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:15:52 GMT

Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery.

Great Lakes - Fish - Asian carps - Science and Environment - Lakes

Toxic drinking water finally tied to old mine

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:54:21 GMT

After decades of denials from the owners of a Nevada mine, dangerous levels of uranium and arsenic in drinking water have been tied to a World War II-era copper mine.

World War II - Drinking water - Nevada

Video: Ice reveals cold, hard climate facts

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:11:54 GMT

Nov. 19: For Green Week, NBC Nightly News reports from Greenland where an international team of scientists are drilling deep into the past to learn what our future may hold. (Nightly News)

Greenland - NBC Nightly News - Climate - Television - Arts