Vestas Joins With Mitsubishi for Offshore Turbines

LONDON — The Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas received a financial lift on Friday as it announced a joint venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industry of Japan to develop offshore wind energy. While Vestas is the world's largest maker of wind turbines,...

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Creationists on Texas Panel for Biology Textbooks

Drew Anthony Smith for The New York Times Students and activists marched through the University of Texas in Austin to the State Board of Education's hearing on biology textbooks on Sept. 17. AUSTIN, Tex. — One is a nutritionist who believes "creation...

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In BP Trial, the Amount of Oil Lost Is at Issue

Win McNamee/Getty Images Workers ran skimmers to draw oil out of a marsh in 2010 near Venice, La. HOUSTON — With billions of dollars in penalties at stake, the civil trial of the British oil company BP begins its second phase on Monday, which will...

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Dot Earth Blog: Why More Climate Science Hasn’t Led to More Climate Policy – Yet

It's worth offering a bit more context on a point I raised in my morning post on the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Will the fresh assessment of global warming from the panel matter where it counts, in the realm of environmental...

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Vestas Joins With Mitsubishi for Offshore Turbines

LONDON — The Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas received a financial lift on Friday as it announced a joint venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industry of Japan to develop offshore wind energy. While Vestas is the world's largest maker of wind turbines,...

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Creationists on Texas Panel for Biology Textbooks

Drew Anthony Smith for The New York Times Students and activists marched through the University of Texas in Austin to the State Board of Education's hearing on biology textbooks on Sept. 17. AUSTIN, Tex. — One is a nutritionist who believes "creation...

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U.N. Climate Panel Endorses Ceiling on Global Emissions

Jonathan Nackstrand/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general, addressed the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Friday. STOCKHOLM — The world's top climate scientists on Friday formally...

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Dot Earth Blog: Why More Climate Science Hasn’t Led to More Climate Policy – Yet

It's worth offering a bit more context on a point I raised in my morning post on the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Will the fresh assessment of global warming from the panel matter where it counts, in the realm of environmental...

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Vestas Joins With Mitsubishi for Offshore Turbines

LONDON — The Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas received a financial lift on Friday as it announced a joint venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industry of Japan to develop offshore wind energy. While Vestas is the world's largest maker of wind turbines,...

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The Texas Tribune: It’s Not the Rare Birds They Mind So Much. It’s the Watchdogs.

Jerod Foster for The Texas Tribune Russell Martin, a state wildlife biologist, said that lesser prairie chicken are so synonymous with federal regulation that he won't bring them up to landowners. LUBBOCK — An odd-looking grouse with an intricate...

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National Briefing | New England: Massachusetts: Fishery Group Limits Herring Catch

The New England Fishery Management Council on Thursday approved the region's first cap on the amount of river herring that can be caught by industrial trawlers. According to the rules, which must be approved and put into place by the National...

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Industry Still Churns, Even as Cleanup Plan Proceeds for a Canal

But even on the eve of its purging, the Gowanus Canal remains very much a garbage dump for the city. Along the banks of the canal one recent morning, just a tin can's toss from the oily green waters, a giant claw grabbed at a tower of scrap metal, like...

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Fight Over Energy Finds a New Front in a Corner of Idaho

LAPWAI, Idaho — In this remote corner of the Northwest, most people think of gas as something coming from a pump, not a well. But when it comes to energy, remote isn't what it used to be. The Nez Perce Indians, who have called these empty spaces...

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Op-Ed Contributor: A Pause, Not an End, to Warming

BERKELEY, Calif. — THE global warming crowd has a problem. For all of its warnings, and despite a steady escalation of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, the planet's average surface temperature has remained pretty much the same for the...

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Bayou Corne Journal: Ground Gives Way, and a Louisiana Town Struggles to Find Its Footing

Courtesy of Jeffrey Dubinsky/Louisiana Environmental Action Network The Bayou Corne Sinkhole: A video shot by John Boudreaux shows the destructive power of a giant sinkhole in Bayou Corne, La. BAYOU CORNE, La. — It was nearly 16 months ago that...

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Dot Earth Blog: Hopefully, Hurricane Lull Won’t Blunt Coastal Shifts

This Twitter item that I posted a short while ago says what needs to be said as the New York region heads toward the anniversary of the devastating surge from Hurricane Sandy: Photo: With hurricane lull, hopefully won't end up in "shock to trance" mode...

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David Hubel, Nobel-Winning Scientist, Dies at 87

Dr. David Hubel, who was half of an enduring scientific team that won a Nobel Prize for explaining how the brain assembles information from the eye's retina to produce detailed visual images of the world, died on Sunday in Lincoln, Mass. He was 87....

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Unilever to Buy Oil Derived From Algae From Solazyme

In a sign of the growing mainstream acceptance of products derived from algae, Unilever, the consumer products giant, has agreed to buy large amounts of oil from Solazyme, a start-up that bioengineers algae to produce oils, proteins and complex sugars,...

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In Bronx River, Helping Oysters Stage Comeback

The oyster did. Oysters clung tenaciously to tires here and there, a tiny remnant of the vast oyster reefs that once thrived in New York City's waterways and nourished natives and settlers alike. Now after decades of cleanup efforts in the river, the...

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Study Sees a Higher Risk of Storms on the Horizon

The eastern and central United States likely will see a greater risk of severe weather by the middle of this century as rising temperatures trigger atmospheric changes that favor storms, a new study by climate scientists from Stanford and Purdue universities...

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Cargo Ship Docking at Space Station Is Delayed

A commercial cargo spacecraft, which was to dock at the International Space Station on Sunday, will not make its second attempt until at least Saturday. It is the first flight of the unmanned Cygnus cargo ship built by Orbital Sciences of Dulles, Va....

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In the Shadow of ‘Old Smokey,’ a Toxic Legacy

William DeShazer for The New York Times Friends play basketball at a park adjacent to the site of Old Smokey, a Miami trash incinerator that shut down in 1970. MIAMI — When she was little, Elaine Taylor remembers rushing home whenever Old Smokey...

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