Let us celebrate that greatest of human endeavours - the incredible ability to take flight - with a selection of our favourite bird's eye views of earth.
Apparently, it's open season on the Endangered Species Act -- a law that for nearly 40 years has successfully prevented the extinction of plants and animals and helped threatened populations recover.
To equate "freedom" with a mineralized conglomerate of fossilized ferns is, quite simply, silly.
In an important ruling by its state Supreme Court, Wyoming has reversed a lower court's refusal to hear a petition by a lesbian couple seeking to end the marriage they entered into in Canada.
Those of us in the environmental movement aren't high school sophomores feeling jilted by their first crush. Most of us liked Obama a lot. But when the political going got a little tough, Obama didn't.
Living underneath a mountaintop removal mining operation in the Coal River Valley in West Virginia, Bo Webb has emerged as one of the most important frontline voices in the coalfield justice movement.
Several times recently, we've heard this argument: When it comes to securing America's energy future, we need "all of the above" -- coal, oil, gas, nuclear, solar, wind, and so on. That is a not an energy policy; it's a cop-out.
Energy analysts are still staggering around for an answer to the Obama administration's news in Wyoming's coalfields to greenlight the mining of an estimated 750 million-2.4 billion tons of coal on public lands.
Next time you buy an iPod, don't forget to add the CO2 cost of moving coal from Powder River Basin, Wyo., to Guangzhou, China.
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Last week, Glenn concluded that Islam would soon be united as a caliphate stretching from Iran west to Morocco, and that Obama and George W. Bush were complicit in this plot. Why is he devoting so much air time to this subject?
The 6-year-old me thought that Dinosaurs were way cooler that some dude on a horse with a hat and a gun. Luckily Jim Owen, the author of The Try, saw things differently.
In a new episode of Big Coal Gone Wild last week, coal lobbyists announced their intentions to rebrand mountaintop removal mining as "mountaintop development."
The only way we're going to defeat the gas industry and protect our water is if people become informed about its dangerous ongoing practices on a massive scale.
Congressman Maurice Hinchey is right to ask questions of gas companies that want to begin using hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from deep underground.
It's been somewhat of an interesting week for America's technology sector, which saw its reputation take some hits on the international level but may ...