Climate scientist James Hansen says he can prove that climate change caused the Texas heat wave.

Maine fishermen caught more lobster last year than ever before.

Wave and tidal energy could provide enough electricity to meet 15 percent of current demand in the United States.

In London, plastic straws are the new plastic bags. No one wants 'em.

An Alaska congressman created a (joke! it was a joke!) resolution urging the federal government to take control of Central Park, analogizing that action to the federal government's relationship to the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Because Central Park is so pristine, and also has oil underneath it. They are exactly the same! Environmentalists now say, "Oh, we totally get it! Yah, let's drill in ANWR. And in Central Park, too, why not."

Illinois installed the most new wind turbines in 2011.

In five years, there could be 39 million "micro-hybrids" -- cars that have a battery to increase cars' efficiency, but that aren’t quite as awesome as Priuses or other full hybrids.

Weather forecasters don't understand climate science. Don't believe them when they say climate change doesn't exist!

House Republicans just can't let go of the Keystone XL pipeline. Speaker Boehner now says it could be part of a bill expanding domestic energy production.

The value of renewable energy deals grew by two-fifths last year, which means, according to analysts, that businesses like wind and solar are "maturing."

Yosemite could limit the number of hikers who ascend to the top of Half Dome each day.

California is requiring cars to give off fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

A toxic spill in China could impact more than 1 million people.

Now that the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage plan has been scrapped, a nuclear commission needs to find a town that wants to host the repository.

Transocean isn't legally responsible for some of the pollution from the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Scientists mapped the Amazon in 3-D.

The plan for protecting New Orleans from hurricanes requires restoring wetlands.

Deforestation is disproportionately killing off the world's largest trees.

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif., a.k.a. the Mustache of Justice) wants to subpoena Koch Industries executives to force them to testify about the company's connection to Keystone XL.

The National Academy of Sciences wants to find out more about nanomaterials and their effects on humans, since the tiny particles are everywhere now.

In West Virginia, kids living near a DuPont plant had 44 percent more perfluorooctanoate (the stuff that's in Teflon and waterproof clothing) in their blood than their mothers did.

The Wall Street Journal thinks it's found Japan's version of Al Gore.

"I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy," President Obama said in his State of the Union.

He didn't talk about fighting climate change, though. The state of the union is: unsurprised.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman says he'll release his proposal for a clean energy standard in the next few weeks.

Durban could actually turn out to be the most successful climate conference yet.

As the camera pans around the Capitol chamber for President Obama's State of the Union address, see if you can spot the representatives from the state of Oil: four avid supporters of the Keystone XL Pipeline who will attend the speech as the guests of House Speaker John Boehner.

Sumatran elephants are critically endangered.

Watch out for the solar flare that's supposed to hit Earth today! It's the strongest since 2005.

President Obama might pump increased domestic oil and gas production in his State of the Union.

The European Union won't be importing any more oil from Iran.

President Obama's going to lay out an energy agenda on Tuesday at the State of the Union.

Thousands of snowy owls are descending from the Arctic to fly over places like Kansas and Missouri (and to deliver messages from Arctic Circle-based wizards, of course).

Rebecca Wodder, who was CEO of American Rivers, won't be Interior's assistant secretary for fish, wildlife, and parks.

Beijing discovers that when your city's weather report includes astronomically high air pollution levels, it's not a great idea to then set off a ton of fireworks.