We hear all the time about Global warming and the greenhouse effect and we are told about the responsibility we have in reducing the effect we are having on the environment, but do we understand how the greenhouse effect works and if infact, it is a real theory or not?

Are you a winner when it comes to recycling?

Constantly bombarded with negative information about the environment, finances and natural resources? Feeling overwhelmed? Each and every one of us can do something to help our world - starting right where we are, right now. Though not everyone can afford to donate cash or time to a cause, there are endless tactics that will decrease an individual’s contribution to the landfill and their resource consumption.

It feels very good to clear up a beach of shards of broken glass hiding just below the surface before an unwary swimmer splashes into it. It does not, however, feel as good to find a large fish hook by imbedding it in the bottom of your foot.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics predicts the gradual energetic decay of physical closed systems ("entropy"). Arguably, the Universe as a whole is precisely such a system.

More and more British households are spending a higher percentage of their income on energy costs. Using the UK Government’s own fuel poverty criteria and set against recent energy price rises it can be calculated that an extra two million households have become victims of fuel poverty.

LED technology is no longer simply being used for basic indicator lights and tradeshow trinkets. This article provides detailed information on the new ways LED lights are being used all over the world and why.

There is no more famous symbol of the Arizona desert than the giant Saguaro Cactus, the 50-foot tall King of Cacti.

Americans dispose of more than 700 billion pounds of paper, glass, plastic, wood, food, metal, clothing, electronics and other refuse annually.

Climate change is an amazingly simple phrase for such a complex subject. Following, we have a go at defining climate change in today’s terms.