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The Hill: Study: Just 25 cities account for majority of global urban greenhouse gas emissions   Just 25 cities comprise more than half of...

The Sanchi engulfed in flame on January 13. China Daily via Reuters The Atlantic : The World Has Never Seen an Oil Spill Like This A ...

People wearing masks are seen on a hazy day at Tiananmen Square in Beijing February 13, 2014. Kim Kyung Hoon—REUTERS Millions Die Ever...

Residents In Beijing Warned To Stay Indoors As Air Quality Hits 'Worst On Record' After City Is Engulfed By Thick Smog -- Daily...

Exxon Valdez Remains Controversial Near Its End In India -- L.A. Times Indian environmentalists have filed a petition to block the Exxon Val...

Gulf Seafood Deformities Alarm Scientists -- Al Jazeera Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution beli...

Iranian cities have some of the worst pollution in the world, with fine particle presence 20 times higher than the recommended upper limit. ...

Nigeria Ogoniland Oil Clean-Up 'Could Take 30 Years -- BBC Nigeria's Ogoniland region could take 30 years to recover fully from the ...

This mummy was discovered in Dakhleh Oasis, a remote outpost in southwest Egypt and lived around 1,800 years ago, at a time when the Romans ...

From Live Science: For scientists concerned about greenhouse gas emissions, cow farts are nowhere near as problematic as their methane-laden...

From National Geographic: The greatest climate threat is from future cars and building, study says. This story is part of a special series...

The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico that resulted from the explosion and collapse of an oil rig can be seen in this image from NASA's Aq...

Ranger Mine - a uranium mine in Kakadu National Park, Australia. From Cosmos: SYDNEY: Some bacteria have the capacity to stabilise uranium c...

From The BBC: UK beaches are being ruined by an ever-accumulating tide of plastic litter, the Marine Conservation Society says. Volunteers a...

Factories line the shores of the lower Yangtze River in China. Heavy pollution tied to China's rapid industrial growth has produced poor...

From New Scientist: Europeans import nearly twice as much carbon dioxide per head as US citizens – but the US still holds the dubious distin...

From The BBC: Scientists have discovered an area of the North Atlantic Ocean where plastic debris accumulates. The region is said to compare...

To better understand the role that black soot has on glaciers, researchers trekked high into the Himalayas to collect ice cores that contain...

From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2009) — After an exhaustive study of air and water pollution along the Athabasca River and its tri...

Photo: Carbon trap: This laboratory device extracts energy from fossil fuels and produces an easy-to-capture stream of carbon dioxide. A lar...