Obama attracted, among others, the vote of many environmentalists, as he himself claims to be one. OBAMA: It is critical that we understand this is not just a challenge, it's ...

Panda bear   Probably no animal in history has gone so far toward capturing the hearts of human beings as the plumpish, clumsy looking creature called the Giant Panda and many debates...

Of course you knew. You just knew it by the middle name. The bald eagle or American eagle   The Bald Eagle was officially declared the National Emblem of the United States by the Second ...

By act of Congress, June 30, 1834, " all that part of the United States west of the Mississippi River, and not within the States of Missouri and Louisiana, or the Territory [now the State] of ...

  By the time temperatures on Terra reach an alarming, unfit for living state, I will be 50 years old. I don't have maternal instincts and don't intend to have a baby sometimes soon so why ...

It's located on Harbour Island in the Bahamas, just 50 miles east of Nassau. So close to mainland USA that to miss this beauty would be unforgivable. So, we didn't. And others make it a point...

  China has some of the finest fossils ever discovered. These fossils have provided unprecedented insight into the evolution of life on Earth. Together, they reveal a new and more comp...

  As you duck beneath the water's surface, your senses click into overdrive. To your right, a bright orange clown fish ducks behind a sea anemone while a moray eel retreats into its coral ...

Yaks. When people think of the animals of Tibet, a yak has to be among the first they think of. Eighty-five percent (or about 10 million) of the world's yaks live on the Tibetan Plateau. A y...

"In 1492, Colombus discovered America." We all know that's true, but we are also aware that this statement would have sounded pretty odd to anyone who happened to be already living in America ...

  The Everglades, located at the southern tip of peninsular Florida, is the most famous wetland in the United States and one of the most distinct in the world. The Everglades is unique a...

  The Zhangjiajie Gritstone-peak Forest, which is now on UNESCO's World Heritage list, China's best preserved cluster of volcanoes and geological features in northeast Heilongjiang Provi...

The Indochinese Tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) is more commonly known as the Indochinese, or Malayan tiger, and was recognized as a subspecies as recently as 1968 from a tiger discovered in the ...

You feel pretty good about yourself toting those green woven bags back and forth to the supermarket. But how much — and what — do they really save? And what's wrong with the old plasti...

Record drop comes as lawmakers hash out climate legislation. WASHINGTON - There is a positive note to the country's economic woes and last summer's $4-per-gallon gasoline: The nation in 2008 had ...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- The first comprehensive report into the human cost of climate change warns the world is in the throes of a "silent crisis" that is killing 300,000 people each year. Victim...

(CNN) -- If we don't know our history, then we can't know our future. Historians arguing the relevance of their subject often repeat that mantra. But one group of researchers is showing how true ...

Friday, June 5, 2009 World Environment Day is celebrated every year on 5 June in more than 100 countries. The theme for 2009 is climate change and the broader consequences of environmental change...

LIJIANG, China A green revolution is under way among rural residents, in the northwest of China's mountainous Yunnan province. In Meiquan Village near Lashi Lake, Zhang Chengui says he has been a...