The Yutyrannus, a newly discovered dinosaur, was huge, related to Tyrannosaurus rex, and covered in feathers.

Thousands of dead dolphins have been washing up on Peruvian beaches.

Austrian and Japanese scientists teamed up to make a solar panel that's thinner than a thread of spider silk.

Drought in England means that anyone caught using a hose faces a fine equivalent to more than $1,500.

The Interior Department is going to expedite its review of applications for oil and gas drilling on federal lands.

Town governments want the ability to regulate fracking, but they’re having to fight against state governments to get it.

An Australian company is planning to extract copper, gold, and other metals from the sea floor.

Pandas at the Edinburgh Zoo are attempting to mate. (Report: “They coupled more than once, but failed to reach the sexual summit.”)

Half of the United States just lived through the warmest March on record.

The EPA gave 20 companies approval to make E15, a biofuel containing more ethanol than blends available now in the U.S.

President Obama's campaign released a new video about his love-hate relationship with Big Oil.

Commercial-scale production of algae biofuel is starting in Brazil.

The Maryland state legislature is working on clearing the way for offshore wind.

Did you fall for Grist's April Fools' joke? Or the other one?

America sucks at Earth Hour. (Unfortunately not an April Fools' joke.)

Outside of America, Earth Hour meant lights out for famous landmarks from the Acropolis to the Eiffel Tower to the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. Check out the video (or pictures).

Total, the French oil company responsible for the gas leak in the North Sea, is figuring out how to cap the offending well.

Small forage fish like anchovies and sardines have more value when left in the ocean as food for bigger fish than when caught and turned into fish oil.

More signs that the movement to stop global warming has run out of gas emerged yesterday as Bill McKibben, the 350.org founder and Keystone XL pipeline opponent, announced that he was hanging up his hat.

The surprise retirement capped a hectic week for the environmental movement, during which one leader after another declared they were giving up on the cause.

"I'm bone-tired and written out. It's time for the planet to take care of itself," McKibben told a crowd of supporters who were sweating in the freakish early-spring heat wave that has rolled across much of the U.S. "I'm going skiing. Uh, make that water-skiing."

Pesticides are killing honeybees and bumblebees, two new studies show.

A chemist who reviewed the results of the EPA’s water testing in Dimock, Pa., says the levels of methane they found were dangerously high, despite the EPA’s statements that the water was safe.

The FDA has to decide by this weekend whether BPA is safe.

The North Sea gas leak might not be as dangerous as it could have been.

The Obama administration cut a deal on approving offshore windfarms for the Great Lakes.

Climate activist Tim DeChristopher, who has been in solitary confinement since March 9 for confusing reasons that might have to do with a "threat" to give someone their money back, was released back into regular old prison Wednesday night.

The gas leak in the North Sea could turn into an oil spill.

Since it's too late to stop climate change, the United Nations is now encouraging the world to plan for it -- stat.

A Chinese oil company passed ExxonMobil to become the largest publicly traded oil company.

New rules for coal plants here could push companies to export coal overseas.

Is Fukushima news ever positive? A new assessment of damage at the plant shows levels of radiation higher than expected, which means decommissioning the plant could take decades.

Building cleantech requires certain resources -- rare earth metals, water, biomass -- that are getting scarce.

Mohamed Nasheed, the deposed Maldives president, is doing a media tour to promote The Island President, the movie about his work on climate change and Copenhagen (out this week in theaters!).

The EPA's going to release draft rules governing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Environmental writer and advocate Sandra Steingraber is using her Heinz Award prize money ($100,000) to start New Yorkers Against Fracking.

The world's going to pass a few climate change tipping points very soon.

Republicans and Democrats agree: They should spend some time publicly fighting over oil industry tax breaks. Bipartisanship!

Keystone XL won't be the only pipeline connecting Canada and the Gulf Coast. TransCanada's competitors are planning pipelines, too.