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Environment

Arctic Ice Melting Faster Than Computers Thought

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Ten Greenest Buildings in America

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New Report Says Climate Change Will Severely Affect Americans

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Discovery to Launch Green Living Channel

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Heating Up and Exposing a Divide

Covering the Earth

A collection of Smithsonian’s recent environmental stories

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Seal Hunt Goes on Despite Melting Ice

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No Ice in Arctic Means No Snow in Aspen

Typical Bank of America local office in Los Angeles

Bank of America is Seeing Green

Roald Amundsen and his crew looking at the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, 1911

Antarctica’s Lost & Found Dept.

IKEA’s $.05 Campaign to Save the Environment

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Scannable Birds? New DNA Barcodes Classify Nature

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Seeds Kept Safe in Arctic Circle Vault

Corn is the main feedstock used for producing ethanol fuel in the United States.

Finding Alternatives to Bush’s Alternative Fuels

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How Many Politicians Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?

Black and white-furred gray wolves

In Danger of Endangerment

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Top 10 Polluted Cities

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Warm Temperatures Get Zoo Animals Steamy

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Wild Things: Life As We Know It

Figs, canary songs, whales with legs, ancient flowering shrubs and beaver dams

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The Dying of the Dead Sea

The ancient salt sea is the site of a looming environmental catastrophe

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