Ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland has contributed nearly half an inch to the rise in sea levels in the past 20 years, according to an assessment of polar i

A new study explores the implications of a Greenland that's actually green.

Scientist captures stunning sunrise during a research mission to study polar ice in the Arctic circle.

Scientists have released the first 'point of view' video filmed by a wild polar bear, offering a glimpse into the animals' daily lives.

The Barnes Ice Cap, a last surviving piece of the once-vast Laurentide Ice Sheet, will be gone in as little as 300 years.

Cadbury will certify 300 million of its Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bars as well as its packaged cocoa, at a cost of £1.5m ($2.1m), by the end of summer.

The narrowest building in Poland is the work of Israeli writer Edgar Keret.

Of the 271 general purpose laundry detergents the Environmental Working Group evaluated, only 7 scored a rating of A.

Invasive plants outcompete native vegetation, threaten endangered species and curb biodiversity. So put on a bib and chow down!

The idea behind Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam's lovely, loopy play structures was born when children started playing on the designer's crochet sculpture in an art ga

Jadav Payeng single-handedly turned a barren sandbar in northern India into a lush new forest ecosystem.

Business as usual is destroying our lives and the environment.

These individuals and organizations support a variety of green causes with generously large donations.

Working with the nonprofit Solar Aid, students earn enough to bring electric light to a school in Kenya

The wooded area around the UK town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire has fallen pray to some amazing guerrilla art.

Over 60,000 members of the People’s Liberation Army will help increase the total acreage of forested land in China from 21 to 23 percent.

500 square miles of Appalachian forest is gone forever due to illegal mountaintop mining, and the EPA doesn't seem to mind.

A state legislator has an interesting and potentially viable way to avoid dealing with the EPA.

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Parts of the Appalachian Mountains are so buffered against climatic shifts they may provide a 'stronghold' against global warming, researchers report.

Here are 7 before-and-after images of cities, as seen from space, showing the impact humans have had on the surrounding environment.

The wildfire in the Florida Everglades has spread to 32,000 acres, and officials are using all the resources they can to contain it.

MBA students in a CSR course at Boston College were tasked to create a green business idea for Verizon and a recyclable phone project came out on top.

Customers will be able to learn more about the environmental impact of their mobile devices.

Cheap solar panels, micro-inverters, and plug-in technology make DIY solar a reality for the first time.

Passive solar is pretty simple. The solar part is obvious: It refers to the sun. The passive part means it works without any mechanical devices, added energy in

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Michael Pollan's State of the Movement Address from the Georgia Organics Convention

Michael Pollan thanks and congratulates several organizations.

Michael Pollan breaks down his address into different components.

Michael Pollan discusses how the food system uses too much fossil fuel and reminds us that solar energy from plants is free.

Michael Pollan explains how healthcare costs are increasing while the amount of money people spend on good food is decreasing and suggests a change.

Michael Pollan explains how public health problems in the past made food so cheap it started costing people their health.

Michael Pollan lays out his ideas about what it would take to reform the food system.

Michael Pollan explains in a nutshell how the system went from working well to its current state.

Michael Pollan explains that if farmers are only growing one or two crops, that means people are only eating one or two crops, which does not make for a healthy

Michael Pollan explains how a variety of plants and animals make for healthy farms, which make for healthy people.

Michael Pollan lists three things that need to be removed in order to get animals back on farms.

Michael Pollan argues that fossil fuel efficiency replaced farmers, and we need to get them back.

Michael Pollan explains how having such a centralized food system can be dangerous to the country.

Michael Pollan predicts local economies will become revitalized and discusses how this will benefit people around the world.

Michael Pollan discusses how people need rethink how they eat and remember to teach children healthy eating.

Michael Pollan reminds us that this is just the beginning. We need to write our legislators and make change happen. Show them that change is happening.

The president is getting a report card for his first 100 days in office from Michael Pollan and others. How's he doing on the food front?

Monsanto, swine flu, Lay's claim to be local, Michelle Obama's organic garden, school lunch programs and more. This video has Michael Pollan weighing in on a lo

Michael Pollan discusses the high cost of cheap food with Jon Stewart.

At Goucher College, Pollan advises students to be thoughtful with their food choices.

An heirloom tomato has been named after Michael Pollan. The "Michael Pollan" tomato is an oddly shaped green and yellow tomato.

When processed food marketers try to outsmart Michael Pollan, he turns the tables on them.

Better World Books will send a free organic, fair trade Divine chocolate bar to shoppers who pick up three used books.