Half-a-million “friends” are calling for Facebook to cut its ties to coal-fired power. Will the Greenpeace-led initiative leave a black mark on the world of cloud-computing?

As the special envoy on climate change for the World Bank, Andrew Steer might be thought of as the $6 billion man of environmental finance.

Would you eat a genetically modified fish? What about pork from a pig with mouse genes? Beef from cattle with genes spliced to resist “mad cow” disease?

After playing dead on top of oil-black plastic sheets outside a Chevron office, protesters marched through downtown San Francisco on Monday to denounce “oil addiction” on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, as the U.S. Gulf Coast recovers from its more recent disaster.

Add up the scorecard and the advantages of wind far outweigh the negatives. What will it take for Congress to accept this and pass a serious energy bill and a national renewable-electricity standard? writes Andris Cukurs, CEO of North American operations of Suzlon Energy.

A drugged tiger cub hidden among cuddly toys in a bag at Bangkok airport ranks as one of the most bizarre smuggling tricks. A 31-year-old Thai woman was about to board a flight to Iran when airport workers found the cub in her oversized bag. It highlights how smugglers find extreme ways of packing away live creatures.

Norway has become one of the world’s richest nations thanks to oil. An environmental group is proposing a 12-point “rehab plan” to break its addiction.

Is hemp the next ultimate material for cars? Electric vehicle developers in Canada think so - and designed a car to prove it.

The U.N. panel of climate scientists once exaggerated the cost of fighting global warming by 1,000 times. That mistake is at odds with suggestions this year that it has a bias to select evidence that will add to pressure on governments to act.

CF Industries is handed a fine and settlement with the EPA that will cost a combined $12.7 million in this issue of The Green Gauge, our companies in the news for their impacts on the environment.

The unusually large rainfall from this year’s monsoon has caused the most catastrophic flooding in Pakistan for 80 years, with the U.N. estimating that around one fifth of the country is underwater. This is thus truly a crisis of the very first order.

In August 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated large swathes of the U.S. Gulf Coast and overwhelmed New Orleans causing what then-U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff described as “probably the worst catastrophe, or set of catastrophes” in U.S. history.

Climate terms make it into Oxford dictionary

Your car could soon be chugging along with its gas tank full of fuel derived from whisky byproducts, thanks to a breakthrough development by Scottish scientists.

The Sierra Club has a new ranking of U.S. colleges and universities, and the greenest of them all is Vermont’s little Green Mountain Gollege, which uses lots of biogas.