Looking for a Way Around Keystone XL, Canadian Oil Hits the Rails

Ian Jackson for The New York Times A Canexus terminal near Bruderheim, Alberta. HOUSTON — Over the past two years, environmentalists have chained themselves to the White House fence and otherwise coalesced around stopping the Keystone XL pipeline...

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Activists Feel Powerful Wrath as Russia Guards Its Arctic Claims

MOSCOW — Gizem Akhan, 24, was about to begin her final year studying the culinary arts at Yeditepe University in Istanbul. Tomasz Dziemianczuk, 36, took a vacation from his job as a cultural adviser at the University of Gdansk in Poland that has now...

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Closing of Live Poultry Markets Is Called Effective in Flu Fight

Chance Chan/Reuters Chinese doctors and nurses at a training course in April for the treatment of the H7N9 virus. Shutting down live poultry markets is extremely effective in preventing human cases of avian flu and should be considered if the disease...

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Of Fact, Fiction and Defibrillators

In a chilling episode of "Homeland" last year, a terrorist killed the vice president with a fiendishly clever weapon: a remote-control device that attacked the computerized defibrillator implanted in his chest. For former Vice President Dick Cheney,...

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Vision of Prairie Paradise Troubles Some Montana Ranchers

Anne Sherwood for The New York Times The American Prairie Reserve is planning to create a grassland reserve in Montana where 10,000 bison may roam. MALTA, Mont. — On fields where cattle graze and wheat grows, a group of conservationists and millionaire...

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‘Octonauts’ Series Adds Federal Partner in Ocean Awareness

Silvergate Media A scene from "Octonauts," the animated pre-school-age television series about the ocean. "Octonauts," the animated preschool series about a crew of eight undersea adventurers whose motto is "explore, rescue and protect," is getting...

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Museum Explores ‘The Power of Poison’

IN an office of the American Museum of Natural History, a team of scientists, artists and multimedia experts were discussing what had poisoned Skippy, a cute Jack Russell terrier that had keeled over sick in his virtual backyard. Was it the chocolate...

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Applied Science: Maybe Heaven Can Wait, but a Customer Can’t

"Patience is a virtue," we are taught. And when you think about it, much of our life is spent waiting for something rather than experiencing it, so that waiting becomes an experience in itself, filled with anticipation, annoyance, boredom or fear....

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Vision of Prairie Paradise Troubles Some Montana Ranchers

Anne Sherwood for The New York Times The American Prairie Reserve is planning to create a grassland reserve in Montana where 10,000 bison may roam. MALTA, Mont. — On fields where cattle graze and wheat grows, a group of conservationists and millionaire...

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Dot Earth Blog: Updates on America’s Persistent Air and Water Pollution Challenges

Air and water problems mainly make headlines these days when extraordinary pulses of pollution surge in places like Beijing and Shanghai. But there are still enormous, if largely hidden, health and environmental costs in many parts of the United States...

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Gray Matter: Scent and the City

SUFFERING from writer's block? Try sniffing rotting apples. This seemed to work for the 18th-century poet Friedrich Schiller, who kept the decaying fruit in his study because he felt the scent stimulated creativity. Though Goethe thought this a little...

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Museum Explores ‘The Power of Poison’

IN an office of the American Museum of Natural History, a team of scientists, artists and multimedia experts were discussing what had poisoned Skippy, a cute Jack Russell terrier that had keeled over sick in his virtual backyard. Was it the chocolate...

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Agency Initiative Will Focus on Advancing Deep Brain Stimulation

Doug Mills/The New York Times President Obama in April after announcing his administration's initiative intended to promote innovative basic neuroscience. Worldwide, 100,000 people have electrical implants in their brains to treat the involuntary...

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Koch Brother Wages 12-Year Fight Over Wind Farm

Stephen Rose "I've had the Turkish mafia after me, so bring it on, baby." WILLIAM I. KOCH, who has fought a proposed wind farm for more than a decade, on environmental groups' threats OSTERVILLE, Mass. — If the vast wind farm proposed for Nantucket...

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Memo From Japan: With a Plant’s Tainted Water Still Flowing, No End to Environmental Fears

Tokyo Electric Power Company, via Associated Press The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where releases of contaminated water may not slow until at least 2015. TOKYO — For months now, it has been hard to escape the continuing deluge...

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Fracking Fight Focuses on a New York Town’s Ban

But Dryden could soon be synonymous with something more than animals and agriculture. In August 2011, the town passed a zoning ordinance effectively forbidding hydraulic fracturing, the controversial gas extraction method also known as fracking. The...

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