Nations have long protected wilderness areas not only out of utility, but also because they were viewed as part of a natural heritage. Conservationists say the sea deserves the same consideration.

The Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation, a 22-year old environmental foundation, today announced the 25 new Switzer Fellows and 11 new Switzer Leadership Grant recipients working with Switzer Fellows on projects that aim to directly improve environment

In future, climate change will bring an increase in salty surfaces on the Earth and in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. However, this higher CO2 has some positive effects on the physiology of barley plants and increases its tolerance to salinit

With Fidel Castro now out of office, East Hampton Village Trustee Edwin L. Sherrill Jr. has got to be the longest serving government official “in the western hemisphere,” Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. told Mr. Sherrill on Friday as he presented the r

EAST HARTFORD — All hands on deck! Local residents and students will be treated to a little bit of history this holiday as the replica tall ship Half Moon docks at Goodwin College’s riverside campus on Thursday.