It's too late for the corals and fish of the Gulf of Mexico, which are the country's largest experiment in how the highly toxic dispersant called Corexit affects them.

Environmentalists and volunteers developed a system to combat wild fires in protected forests in the southern Khasan district of Primorye, according to the environmental fund Phoenix.

About 14,000 bloated or decaying pig carcasses dumped into the Huangpu River, Shanghai’s main waterway, were removed and disposed of in the latest environmental and agricultural event to strike China.

As toxic smog enveloped Beijing this year, one theme dominated China’s front-pages, writes Tom Phillips: air pollution.

The most important environmental story coming out of China this year is not the treatment of workers at the iPad plant, or whatever journalistic ethics were compromised in the reporting of it, but the meteoric rise of grassroots environmental groups in the country.

A US court has been asked to block $3 billion in funding for one of Australia's major coal seam gas export projects because of the threat it poses to dugongs, turtles and the Great Barrier Reef.

Environmental groups in Australia are fighting back against the U.S. Export-Import Bank's $3 billion in financing to build a liquefied gas facility in Queensland that would drill as many as 10,000 gas wells using hydraulic fracturing.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank’s $3 billion in financing for a liquefied natural gas facility in Australia faces a legal challenge from conservation groups alleging the project threatens the Great Barrier Reef and marine life.

New York - Three environmental groups sued the U.S. Export-Import Bank on Thursday, claiming it failed to perform rigorous environmental assessments before approving $2.95 billion in financing for an Australian liquefied natural gas project backed by ConocoPhillips and Origin Energy Ltd.

Earlier this year Rolex announced the five winners of the 2012 Rolex Awards for Enterprise, who are being honored in New Delhi, India, on November 27. This profile looks at the work of 2012 Laureate Sergei Bereznuk, director of the Phoenix Fund, a small environmental NGO in Russia.

Beautiful sunny Monday, September 9, 2012, Kristen McDonald, head of Pacific Environment's China Program, along with Hunan's non-government environmental protection volunteers conducted a field investigation of Hunan's mother river -- the Xiangjiang River.

TIME Magazine “Hero of the Environment” and prominent Chinese grassroots leader, Zhao Zhong, recently spoke at The Asia Foundation’s headquarters in San Francisco on working with governments and corporations to increase accountability in order to protect China’s rivers.

Gansu province in western China is poor, polluted and parched. After 29-year-old Zhao Zhong survived a serious climbing accident, he decided to dedicate himself to preserving Gansu.

Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical Co. are $5 billion closer to building a world-scale petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia, thanks to the U.S. government.

Gorno-Altaisk, RUSSIA — Ecologists representing the U.S. National Park Service visited the Altai Nature Preserve and a series of parks in Gorniy Altai to learn about their Altain colleagues’ experiences working with local residents to create new jobs.

Two separate environmental coalitions are criticizing the Obama Administration for its intent to support coal and natural gas export terminals near the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

SAN FRANCISCO--Three conservation groups initiated alegal challenge today to the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s nearly $3 billion in financing for two massive fossil-fuel facilities in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Three environmental groups have called on UK banks Barclays, RBS and Standard Chartered to compensate Sakhalin residents for pollution caused by a large oil and gas project that they helped finance.

A suspicious and powerful government. Home to incredible biodiversity and the world’s biggest polluters. A citizenry struggling to define its notion of civil society. Despite these challenges, the environmental movement in China is gaining momentum.

The U.S. government’s export lender backed $90 million in loans to boost overseas sale of coal, drawing criticism from environmental groups that say the Obama administration is ignoring coal’s risks to air and health.

Thank you for publishing the article, “Polar Code talks stalled in IMO Subcommittee meeting” in last week’s edition. The suspended discussion on the environmental portion of the Polar Code has great implications for people living in coastal Alaska.

California is rightfully lauded for its world-leading energy policy. Yet I often hear from business and political leaders that the state could do much more. A new report published by Pacific Environment presents a vision for the San Francisco Bay Area in which available energy technologies and policy tools are fully implemented.

I’m an artist. I love art. I create art. I get upset when someone tries to denigrate the very meaning of art.

In a meeting room in London, far away from the polar regions, the German chairwoman of the International Maritime Organization’s sub committee on ship design and equipment shelved discussions of environmental rules as part of the Polar Code for a year, effectively pushing the completion of the code further into the future.

Environmental and Alaska Native groups will try to keep Shell Oil out of Arctic waters this summer by appealing an air quality permit that was granted by the Environmental Protection Agency.

SACRAMENTO, CA – Clean energy is getting a boost in the Golden State today, as Gov. Jerry Brown unveils a new agreement to boost clean-energy jobs.

KAROO, South Africa — When a drought dried up their wells last year, hundreds of farmers and their families flocked to local fairgrounds here to pray for rain, and a call went out on the regional radio station imploring South Africans to donate bottled water.

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On Sunday, September 11th, the New York Times ran a front page story about recent accusations that the Russian environmental advocacy group and Pacific Environment partner Baikal Environmental Wave (BEW) was using pirated software.

IRKUTSK, Russia — It was late one afternoon in January when a squad of plainclothes police officers arrived at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group here. They brushed past the staff with barely a word and instead set upon the computers before carting them away. Taken were files that chronicled a generation’s worth of efforts to protect the Siberian wilderness.

Gansu province in northwestern China is a land of snowcapped peaks, crumbling hills and Silk Road oases. It's a harsh, beautiful place — and a fragile one.

Four hundred miles (640 km) long and up to a mile (1.6 km) deep, Siberia's Lake Baikal is the world's largest body of fresh water. It contains over 1,500 unique animal and plant species and 20% of the planet's unfrozen freshwater reserves.

Walking along the shore of Siberia's Lake Baikal, the oldest and deepest freshwater body in the world, I am musing over the lake's changing colors, from fluorescent turquoise to jade green to gray, when I suddenly realize that my guide, Marina Rikhvanova, is no longer with me.