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Not two years after the BP spill, Obama will sell $4 billion worth of leases to oil companies keen on drilling in the Gulf.

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A group of doctors and environmentalists in Salt Lake City have joined the Occupy movement to sue the third-largest mining corporation in the world for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act with practices that contribute to thousands of pollution-rel...

In a surprise twist, researchers capture photographs of a species believed to have been lost to the ages.

My reporting for mongabay.com took me to six continents in 2011 and I managed to take photos on many of the trips. Overall I added more than 10,000 new photos to the travel section of the site. Below are some of my favorite pictures from 2011. Thank...

Highlighting the threat of global warming pollution, killer floods have struck Durban, South Africa, as international climate talks begin there. Ten people along South Africa's east coast were killed, 700 houses destroyed, and thousands left homeless...

Environmentalists often argue that happiness is more important than money. But it's quite something for a bank ad to do the same.

Like all of the world's hundred-plus lemur species, the crowned lemur (Eulemur coronatus) is only found on the island of Madagascar. They inhabit the northern tip of the island..

Despite fossil-fueled myths, the clean energy economy is working. Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) has launched a new weekly clean energy jobs newsletter and web site, with job announcements and expansions by region, state, and congressional district...

From a Beelzebub bat to a vampire flying frog-see Halloween-worthy species that crept from the shadows into the scientific limelight.

The combined profits of the Big Five oil companies — ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron — has already exceeded $100 billion this year. Tabulated by Oil Change International's Ross Hammond, the profits from the first three quarters of ...

Ten Reasons Not to Bank On (or With) Bank of America

by Noreen Nielsen Today, oil giant ExxonMobil announced their 2011 third-quarter earnings, reporting a whopping $10.3 billion in profits, an increase of 41 percent from the same period last year. Overall, Exxon has earned over $31 billion in profits ...

A Massey Energy security official has been convicted by a jury for his role in covering up the coal company's culpability for the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion that killed 29 miners in April 2010. Former mine security director Hughie Elbert Stover ...