Earth Day is getting closer and you haven't found an event to join or activity to participate in. Don't worry, we've got you covered with a few places to go in search of Earth Day ideas. The Nature Conservancy suggests three musts for Earth Day and every day: Make a donation - A tax-deductible monetary gift can be made through the Nature ...

Called a viral grassroots movement, this weekend's Step It Up event is expected to attract tens of thousands of people across the country. They'll be joining together at iconic locations, in cities and in small towns as part of a call for action on climate change. Participants will be walking, hiking, biking, swimming, canoeing or standing, with ...

It would be easy to use the weeks leading up to Earth Day to encourage small initiatives like recycling or even a complete lifestyle overhaul, but we're not going to do that. Don't get us wrong, we always support steps towards green living, but we also want people to remember why they are taking those steps. Why people careIf we didn't care about ...

On Friday the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a much-anticipated report detailing impacts of human-caused global warming. As expected, the news isn't good. Predictions include hundreds of millions without water, mass food shortages and floods and millions of species becoming extinct -- with the world's poor bearing the brunt ...

In Monday’s 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court labeled carbon dioxide and other emissions as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) calls news that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) already has the power to set emissions limits a “stunning rebuke” to the Bush Administration.What NRDC says the decision ...

A lack of ice flows in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence is suspected to have caused the deaths of thousands of harp seal pups. Mother seals require the ice flows to give birth and nurse their pups, but surveillance flights over the region by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) have found the area seriously lacking in both seals and ice. ...

In a recent 10-1 vote, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors banned petroleum-based plastic bags from the checkout aisles of supermarkets and pharmacies -- to the cheers of environmentalists everywhere. Biodegradable plastic bags or recycled paper bags are two permitted alternatives. And even though it’s not happening in my town, I’m hopeful one ...

U.S. churches are going green this week by using eco-palms in their Palm Sunday church services. The palm fronds are considered ''green'' because of the way they’re collected. Only quality palms are cut and the rest of the plant is left intact to provide wildlife habitat and continue growing for future use.Social benefits are also reaped since ...

An article in today’s issue of the journal Science proposes that the focus on carbon dioxide as “the” greenhouse gas responsible for global warming needs to be widened to include other bad gases contributing to the problem -- which we heard recently could see entire climate zones wiped out in under 100 years.A complex mix of greenhouse gases ...

A new study has found by 2100, several existing climate zones could be lost completely, and new climates won’t be anything like what we have now.The worst case scenario is current climate conditions on 48 percent of Earth's land area would no longer exist. The changes would most severely affect biodiverse areas like the Amazonian and Indonesian ...