COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — John Spratt, a former longtime Democratic congressman from South Carolina who

Driven largely by a boom in solar power, renewable energy expansion has hit record-breaking totals a

The epic blow-up at Copenhagen was ultimately about something very simple. It was about economic gro

This story was updated with a lawsuit filed March 28 over the South Dakota law. Bills to clamp down

The last couple of years have been terrific for semiconductor stocks. Well, most semiconductor stock

Two siblings were found abandoned at a Milwaukee park after the woman babysitting them allegedly dro

Starting Tuesday, millions of U.S. workers will gain vastly expanded protections under a new law tha

We live on a liquid blue planet. Life emerged from the seas, and human bodies are 60 percent water.

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration, who has led a tougher enforcement policy against Bo

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced plans today to create a powerful new climate change entit

By By Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, Earth Island JournalWhen the scale of the climate crisis became clear,

The Senate voted early Saturday to approve a major overhaul of the U.S. tax code that critics say wo

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise:

Reporting from Copenhagen UN negotiators from poor nations are threatening to abandon targets on cur

Centered in the equatorial tropics, Africa is the world’s hottest continent, and millions of people