North America Green News

Last updated on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 3:00AM EST F lood-swamped regions of Vancouver Island, including the Comox Valley and Cowichan Valley, got some good news amid evacuations and street closings with the province's announcement of financial assistance and the...

In the past few decades, the number of electronic gadgets sucking up energy in American households has increased at a staggering pace. Although experts have offered up many different ways for cutting back on phantom loads and increasing conservation efforts,...

At a farm in Virginia in the United States, a calf has been born with two faces. The calf has been drawing quite a crowd since its birth. The little calf actually breathes out of two noses and has two...

Temperatures hit 38 degrees before a cool change brought high winds which caused havoc on the roads across the state. More than 20 traffic lights went down across Melbourne and some 15,000 households in the city's outer west and parts...

Energy company executives on Thursday told a Senate panel that the federal government should allow more oil and gas production off the U.S. coasts, over the objections of environmentalists who said offshore drilling was too risky. “Access to the vast...

The head of the United Stations says the group must work with the world's parliaments to help the poor out of the global economic crisis. Secretary- General Ban Ki-Moon said in New York the recession is no excuse for abandoning...

New regulations to reduce miners� exposure to coal dust will be proposed within a couple of weeks, according to the nation�s top mine regulator. Joseph Main, the new head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, said he has...