Posted: 10:20 AM On the surface, it's looking good for the recovery of the Gulf of Mexico a year after the BP oil spill.

Posted: 9:38 AM With new developments and pioneering technology, geothermal energy is spreading throughout the United States.

Posted: 9:16 AM An ex-Naval facility in Texas is turning more from the sea to the wind.

Posted: 10:13 AM An invasive species of moth that eats prickly pear cactus is moving across the Gulf Coast toward Texas - and that's prompting action by the U.S. and Mexican governments.

Posted: 10:23 AM Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan will meet with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano on Friday to discuss the nuclear crisis.

Updated: 10:11 AM Four Loko, the controversial alcoholic energy drink recently banned in five states is now being recycled into fuel.

Updated: 9:38 AM Sustainability is more than a buzz word with Texas A&M University Dining.

Updated: 10:59 AM The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is recognizing a local community that is helping reduce air pollution and improve people’s health and overall quality of life through smart growth neighborhoods.

Posted: 10:19 AM Recycling is now city wide in Corpus Christi.

Posted: 12:11 PM The El Paso city staff, in an effort to fight litter, is expected to propose a fee for consumers who prefer plastic bags over paper ones.

Posted: 3:30 PM A company that owns a 48-acre landfill in DeKalb County, Georgia plans to convert the site into a solar energy farm.

Posted: 10:57 AM The Coast Guard says cleanup of the Houston Ship Channel continues a week after about 250,000 gallons of beef fat leaked from a tank on shore and some reached the water.

Posted: 10:52 AM Two men from Japan have been arrested for allegedly smuggling more than 50 live turtles and tortoises into the United States.

Posted: 2:43 PM Protecting and enhancing the water quality of the Lower Cibolo Watershed will be the focus of a free, one-day public workshop to be conducted by the Texas Watershed Steward program from 8a.m.-4 p.m. Jan. 27 in Panna Maria.

Posted: 9:58 AM A Texas commission has approved a plan to allow 36 states to dump low-level radioactive waste in West Texas.

Updated: 9:55 AM A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from taking over greenhouse gas permits in Texas.

Posted: 9:25 AM Brownsville effort at going greener begins this week with a ban on most plastic shopping bags commonly handed out to customers by retailers.

Updated: 1:30 PM Four state and federal agencies have joined forces to promote conservation of natural resources in the Big Bend region.

Posted: 1:27 PM Environmentalists are hailing a state panel's decision to buy 18,000 acres of wilderness along a remote West Texas river without trading a pristine state natural preserve in the bargain.

Updated: 9:01 AM Some Central Texas pecan farmers who believe sulfur dioxide emissions from a coal-fired power plant slowly killed their orchards want compensation from the operator and the city of Austin.

Posted: 8:48 AM The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has scrapped a widely criticized proposal to swap land with a Dallas businessman, proposing instead to keep a remote West Texas tract popular with hikers and kayakers while still acquiring the private landowner's 17,000-acre ranch.

Posted: 9:33 AM What do such diverse and far-flung places like Matagorda Island, Enchanted Rock and the Davis Mountains have in common?

Posted: 9:30 AM It takes much more than a village to save a river, a case in point being the beautiful and beloved Pedernales River in the Texas Hill Country.

Posted: 9:27 AM The choice of the majestic bald eagle over the wild turkey as our nation's symbol may have been justified, but it's plumb inexplicable for the turkey not to be the state bird of Texas, a place often billed as a whole 'nother country.

Posted: 2:17 PM Georgia Tech researchers have found a way to power electronic devices with nanoscale generators which draw energy using an array of tiny nanowires directly from the environment.