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McCain Lays Out 'Nonpartisan' Energy Options

The presidential hopeful cites alternatives to fossil fuels but also calls for the U.S. to draw on its vast oil and natural gas resources.

Butterfly Diplomacy: An Immigration Policy for Monarchs

North America's monarch "is one of the largest of our butterflies and rules a vast domain." But it's in trouble on both ends of its massive migration.

Being Green: A Capital Idea

Let's trot out ol' Kermit once again: It ain't easy being green. That's the usual (but certainly not universal) knock for companies that say they want to be good environmental stewards but at the same time have to answer to investors whose idea of green stewardship pertains pretty exclusively to dead presidents.

Off-roaders Leaving Environmentalists in the Dust

It's a zero-sum game between conservationists and four-wheelers, according to a University of Idaho academic, and one that those who favor the pristine can never win.

Earth Day: A Miller-McCune News Roundup

How to fix the Earth on one page, or a compilation of our best environmental coverage.

Charting a Crooked River’s Renaissance

The revival of Cleveland's incendiary Cuyahoga River teaches that environmental restoration, no matter how daunting, is possible.

Seeing the Forest and the Trees

The United States has built one of the most advanced technological societies the world has ever seen, but we still don’t really know when spring starts.

More Global Warming Worries

Reducing global carbon dioxide emissions will be an even more daunting challenge than we have been led to believe, according to a sobering commentary in the April 3 issue of Nature magazine.

Worried About Water

Americans are far more concerned about the quality of water than they are about global warming, according to Gallup's annual environmental survey. But they aren't as worried overall about environmental issues as they were in previous years.

More Bad News on Global Warming

As Americans argue about how to tackle the issue of climate change, the astonishingly rapid industrialization of China is threatening to negate whatever progress we might achieve in reducing greenhouse gases. According to a new analysis by economists at two University of California campuses, China's carbon dioxide emissions are growing at…