An ice island with an area of 100 square miles, 4 times the size of Manhatten, has broken off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers in what scientists say is the biggest such event in the Arctic in nearly 50 years.

BP will this week step up its fight against an "unconstitutional" proposal to ban it from new US offshore drilling, which the British Embassy has warned could be seen as protectionism.

A United Nations panel has voted to remove Ecuador's Galápagos Islands from its list of endangered sites. The islands had been on the list since 2007 because of the increase in tourism, over-fishing and the introduction of invasive species...

Now that BP's damaged Gulf well appears under control, scientists are struggling to answer two questions: How much oil ended up in the Gulf, and what will be the long-term effects?

As BP inched closer to permanently sealing the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, congressional investigators railed against the company and Coast Guard for liberal use of toxic chemicals that helped disperse the oil, but at unknown expense to sea life. The Coast Guard routinely approved BP requests to use thousands of gallons.....

Gov. Charlie Crist pushes a constitutional amendment banning offshore drilling, an effort defeated by Republicans. It's not the only political battle ignited by the spill.

Students at the Rochester Institute of technology have put together this WiFi hotspot. It gets its signal through a para...

Water sample exploded when chemist tested for oil. Most likely caused from methane and Corexit.

Imagine this: if all the water in the world were somehow inside a water cooler, the amount of fresh, drinkable water would be one tablespoon. And Americans are the world’s biggest water wasters, chugging, drinking, washing, flushing and irrigating without a second thought until most of us have used about 150 gallons a day each.

There's no happy ending for shrimp exposed to the mood-booster Prozac, according to a new study. Remnants of antidepressant drugs flushed into rivers worldwide are altering shrimp behavior and making them easier prey...