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Alaska to sue to block polar bear listing - Bad news for Bears - Good news for greedy oil companies.

The state of Alaska will sue the U.S. government to stop the listing of the polar bear as a threatened species, arguing the designation will slow development in the state, Gov. Sarah Palin said on Wednesday.

TCS Daily - Ice, Ice Baby

The Cape Farewell Project, now in its third year, brings together creative types with the aim of "using the Arctic as a source of 'artistic' food", and also hooks artists up with scientists and educators. The 2005 voyage included such Brit-art names as Rachel Whiteread, Gary Hume and Antony Gormley; the novelist Ian McEwan; and the dancer Siobhan Davies.

An interview with Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott _

Last week, Wal-Mart joined leading energy executives in their startling call for mandatory caps on greenhouse-gas emissions. The heart of this monolithic retail Grinch grew three sizes that day -- or so it seemed to many environmental Who's.

Administration Avoids Real Solutions to Global Warming

As we celebrate the 37th Earth Day, it s up to us to demand action on global warming and take steps to reduce global warming pollution in our daily lives.

Seed: What to Do for Earth Day

You don't sing "Happy Birthday." There's no need to buy any gifts. And good luck carrying the Earth over any threshold. Strapped for ideas on how to celebrate Earth Day? Let us help you out. Here's a list of events going on around the globe. It's hardly exhaustive, but if you are not near one of these shindigs, why not throw a similar soiree wherever it is you live? Just one request: If you were considering hugging a tree, why don't you plant one instead?

Globing Warming : Too Hot Not To Handle

An HBO Exclusive Earth Day, April 22 A one-hour documentary that illustrates the effects of global warming and solutions that are already taking place. The film features contributions from leading scientists.

Seed: State of the Planet 2006

Whether this or future Earth Days help solve any particular environmental problems won't matter a bit, unless we tackle the biggie climate change. Bill McKibben, who sounded the alarm two decades ago with his landmark book The End of Nature, reviews the damage and points the way forward. The x-factor in preventing catastrophe, he says, will be whether the American public with its financial and cultural power to move mountains sort of gets it, or really gets it.

The Post-oil Megacity

A good debate with the pros and cons

Microscopic Brain Imaging in the Palm of Your Hand | Science Blog

About life, it expands a lot further than our eyes can see that's why we need some philosophical principles to help us behave.