Maine's taking a stand against oil usage and oil dependency--frankly the bigger issue than where we get our oil from, tar sands and other unconventional oil sources aside. As NRDC Switchboard reports, the state has passed a law

When you think Mexico, think biofuels (not just tequila). That's the message of OriginOil, a Los Angeles, California, company that's been contracted by the Mexican government to produce 1 percent of the

The Transition Town concept, a community focused response to climate change and peak oil, which was pioneered by Rob Hopkins, and which we reported on here and here, is spreading even further. For the first time, it is being tried on a city-wide scale,

The literature on soil erosion contains countless references to the "loss of protective vegetation." Over the last half-century, clearcutting, overgrazing, and overplowing have removed so much of that protective cover

From Wangaari Maathai's Billion Tree campaign to lush permaculture landscapes in Jordan, we've seen how individuals and communities can reverse desertification and bring life back to arid soils. Now a new dramatized documentary

The play bombed in Oxbow for promoting a green agenda.

The film director believes that ocean exploration could help us to prepare better for climate catastrophes.

Since the Rena, a Liberian ship, ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand 10 days ago, an environmental catastrophe has been brewing. Oil is spilling into the ocean, harming wildlife and reaching shore.

Now confirmed, the legendary boiling river deep in the Amazon was long considered an impossibility due to its distance from active volcanoes.

"She was an amazing animal," says one of the rescued otter's keepers. "She taught a lot of people about conservation."

A federal study of sea otters in Prince William Sound, Alaska, where the Exxon Valdez supertanker spilled around 30,000,000 gallons of oil about 25 years ago has concluded that the otters have returned to pre-spill numbers.

The Norwegian oil company announced that’s its ended its plans to drill in Alaska.

It's an incredibly hard process.

Let this 14-inch goldfish caught in the Niagara River be your answer.

Actors Emma Thompson and Michelle Thrush are traveling with their daughters to the North Pole, as part of an Greenpeace campaign to create an international sanctuary in the Arctic.

More good news for the Arctic as the Obama administration pushes off further offshore drilling in Alaska.

The Gwich'in people have been fighting this battle for decades, and now they need broader public support. Learn how you can help.

We were at the Cottage Life Show in Toronto this weekend, but soon there might be a whole spinoff, "Compost Toilet Life Show" , there were so many new products in the alternative toilet world. One that surprised us was the Finnish Biolan- we are used to

As John Laumer noted earlier, there is a lot of useful stuff in pee, but we dilute it with gallons of water, send it down big pipes mixed with everything else, and suddenly we have monstrous networks of waste piping, sewage treatment plants and water

For at least six weeks, thousands of barrels of tar sands oil have been bubbling up into the forest in Cold Lake, Alberta and neither the oil company or government scientists know how to stop the flow.

Is the oil industry starting to be worried about electric vehicles?

It's that seventies show all over again as a Trudeau gets blamed but it's not his fault; it's simple economics.

Canadian National Railways figures out a crazy new way to mix oil and plastic – to what end?

The climate crisis and peak oil demand are making expensive projects like Alberta's Teck Frontier look like bad investments.

No wonder the video went viral -- it looks like magic. But Ultra Ever Dry appears to be the real thing.

Preston Kott of U.S. Environmental Services moves oil absorbent boom into a warehouse at a pollution control staging area in Venice, La., April 27, 2010. Staging areas are being set up along the Gulf coast as the Deepwater Horizon spill continues to

A most painful demonstration of Murphy's Law - that

An international team of researchers has created a new type of cement that uses these discarded items that is just as strong, but produces far less emissions.

It's part of a statewide effort to crack down on plastic waste.

They say it reduces CO2 emissions by 80 percent. Does it really?

According to experts in the failure of oil and gas pipelines, there are a handful of factors that can contribute to a pipeline rupture, like the one in Mayflower, Arkansas. A new report finds all were in play on the Pegasus pipeline.

More than six months since tar sands oil spilled into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood, two homes have just been leveled by Exxon in order to clean up oil that was found under their foundations.

More than 20,000 barrels of crude oil spilled, but thankfully because of a 40 foot thick layer of clay beneath the field, the oil has been relatively contained and is not believed to have reached a water source.

Pipeline company Kinder Morgan claims that they create "business and employment opportunities".

A look at the fallout from the recent oil price crash.

The rupture spilled thousands of gallons of oil, contaminated at least four miles of beach and spread into the ocean.

Why make exceptions like this?

It's much easier to keep clean.

Billions of gallons of water may be wasted because of this.

Sometime within the last century, soil erosion began to exceed new soil formation. Now, nearly a third of the world’s cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming, reducing the land’s inherent fertility.

There isn't much choice, as groundwater reserves are insufficient. But really...is bottled water any worse than this? Four years behind schedule and nearly $80 million over the original budget, the nation's largest sea water desalination facility

At the tech company's New Mexico data center, it found that oil-submerged servers require far less energy for cooling and actually perform better.

One-third of emissions reductions needed for 2 degree target could be achieved with better land management.

Incredibly, this appears to be the first time the government has really tried to tackle this crucial issue nationwide.

When the earthworms are in trouble, we all are.

Here's why soil is one of our most valuable natural resources and what you can do to support it.

If we don't take care of the soil, the soil will lose its ability to take care of us.

We all know the palm oil industry has a horrible reputation for deforestation. The Rainforest Alliance, however, believes that change can happen from within and that sustainable palm oil production is attainable.

The fires used to clear land for new palm oil plantations are out of control this year, and much of Asia is cloaked in a sickening haze. It's time to realize the cost of our global addiction to palm oil.

Done in collaboration with local companies, residents and other organizations, the project's aim is to bring awareness to how palm oil production is negatively affecting humans and animals alike.