Digg/Environment

A judge has lifted the moratorium on Gulf oil drilling, but few realize that the moratorium affected fewer than 1% of Gulf of Mexico oil wells. Here's a look at that, and 14 other myths and misconceptions about the Gulf Oil Spill.

The containment system capturing oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill had to be removed Wednesday, leaving the gusher unchecked after a collision involving a robotic submarine, US officials said.

Clouds add beauty to sky and are the part of our everyday lives. Sometimes photographers take extraordinary pictures of clouds which we rarely see and such beautiful cloud formation often went unnoticed. If you see some of these rare clouds, consider yourself very lucky.

Consumers shouldn't assume that, because a product is organic, it's also environmentally friendly.

Should networks ever turn their airwaves over to analysts whose selling point to clients is that they have influence with lawmakers currently in power?

According to the most recently available financial disclosure form for District Court Judge Martin Feldman, he had holdings of up to $15,000 in Transocean in 2008. He has also recently owned stock in offshore drilling or oilfield service providers Halliburton, Prospect Energy, Hercules Offshore, Parker Drilling Co., and ATP Oil & Gas.

A recent Los Angeles Times article confirmed that sea turtles are being burned in the efforts to clean up the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The majority of the sea turtles affected by the oil spill are the endangered Kemp's Ridleys.

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BP has spent $2 billion in two months of fighting its Gulf of Mexico oil spill and compensating victims, with no end in sight to the disaster or the price tag.

An underwater ridge could explain why a major glacier in the Antarctic is melting more quickly than ever before, according to a new study.

Water runoff from cropped farm fields can contain large amounts of eroded soil as well as some of the fertilizer and herbicide. Expanding on existing conservation practices, a team of scientists has tested whether compost filters socks in grassed waterways would reduce sediment flow and retain dissolved ...

The search for a solution to climate change continues...

Despite a lagging economy, global retail sales of organic cotton apparel and home textiles reached an estimated $4.3 billion—a 35 percent increase from 2008's $3.2 billion market. Correspondingly, ranks rose and fell. One big-box retailer can no longer claim top-dog status, for one, and a seasoned stalwart fell off the chart completely.

The documents released by Congressman ED Markey reveal that the latest estimates are substantially higher than the numbers originally released to the public.

Oh, batteries. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. We've been dealing with lofty promises and batteries that kick the bucket far too early, for years now. And the fact that we're still dealing with standard lead-acid batteries is a baffling thing to wrap one's mind around. Enter, the spud...

BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward attended a yachting race in England yesterday. It was just the latest BP public relations gaffe in the Gulf oil spill. Here are 10 of the worst.

They are among the planet's smallest creatures, yet they have the power to change the world. Insects can be man's greatest friends, pollinating our crops, and also our greatest enemy, spreading disease and killing millions worldwide.

Ready for another exciting competition in the world of prefab solar houses? Today the 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe kicked off in Madrid, Spain, marking the first time the competition has been hosted in Europe.

Of all the ‘mainstream’ forms of renewable energy, it seems that geothermal power is always left in the shadows compared to solar and wind power. However, that looks set to change with news that the US Department of Energy will fund geothermal projects in northwestern Nevada and southeast Oregon.

Australia announced that it would file a lawsuit against Japan at the International Court of Justice as a result of Japan's sustained whaling efforts in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, an area dedicated to the preservation of global whale populations.