Struggling with record diesel prices, the trucking industry's main trade group introduced a plan Thursday to reduce fuel consumption and emissions over the next decade mainly by having its members slow down. ...more

May 9, 2008

It's been dubbed a Noah's Ark for plant life and built to withstand an earthquake or a nuclear attack. ...more

February 26, 2008

It was nearly 50 years ago that Physicians for Social Responsibility first helped find traces of radioactive waste in children's teeth as a result of atmospheric nuclear testing. ...more

February 23, 2008

Florida is fighting for states' rights - as well as clean air - by joining the lawsuit filed by California against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. ...more

February 23, 2008

The cold fronts, which the weather reporters keep showing, never seem to get much farther south than Orlando. We may not see any freezing temperatures this year. And the chance of getting any appreciable rain also will not happen. I am supposing that we must have gotten at least one good freeze because I see that most of the citrus groves fruits are ready for harvesting. But if this climate warming continues will the growers, who depend upon the freezing climate and rain, be able to continue? Watering restrictions will include not only homeowners but the growers also? ...more

February 14, 2008

At dusk on New Year's Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery. ...more

February 3, 2008

The persistent and dramatic decline in the snowpack of the mountains of the West is caused primarily by human-induced global warming and is not the result of natural variability of weather patterns in the region, researchers reported Thursday. ...more

February 1, 2008

Saint Leo University is one of more than 1,750 institutions examining global warming and possible solutions in what's being billed as the largest teach-in in U.S. history today. ...more

January 31, 2008

Fred Palensar of Holiday questions global warming, saying climate change part of a natural cycle. ...more

January 29, 2008

After spending two weeks on Indian Rocks Beach during the Christmas holidays and reading Mike Salinero's article "How Green Are We?" (Dec. 22) my answer would have to be "Not nearly green enough." I grew up in Pinellas County, but I live in Norway. ...more

January 22, 2008