The Ghanaian rainforest has been decimated over the past 50 years, losing about 80% of its size in that period. Paired with the fact that deforestation is responsible for roughly one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions each year, and there is a serious problem brewing on Africa’s western coast.

After staunch denial that climate change was an occurring phenomenon during the Bush Administration, change has finally come to the international climate change debate.

Given that more than 45 million Americans live within 300 feet of a four-lane road, airport or railroad, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), together with the University of Michigan, will spend the next two years studying the health effects of air pollution on children living near the country’s busiest roads.

At the Good Karma Café, being green doesn’t mean being obvious.

You wouldn’t know it walking through its doors, but almost every inch of the small, brightly decorated coffee shop near Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia is fashioned from recycled substances.

Scientists are concerned about the contribution hydroflurocarbons (HFCs) will have to climate warming, especially given that in the next few decades developing countries are expected to use HFCs exponentially more than developed countries have to date. While HFCs do not deplete the ozone layer, they are greenhouse gases that contribute to radiative climate warming.

By now, you’ve probably contemplated your carbon footprint — but do you know its literal meaning?

Scientists at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) have ranked as many as 30 spots around the world where human activities are causing the most damage to coastal marine ecosystems.

A majority of the inhabitants of a town in rural Australia, Bundanoon, agreed July 8 at a town meeting to ban bottled water, the Associated Press reported July 9. Approximately 2,500 people reside in the small town 100 miles south of Sydney. It could well be the first town in Australia, and possibly the world, to ban bottled water.

Almost everyone is familiar with the most common ways to help save the environment. Recycle. Turn off the lights when you leave a room. Use energy-saving appliances. Trade in your SUV for a hybrid. Et cetera, et cetera. But there are many less common ways to be green. Here are a few of them:

The Blues are going green. Chelsea Football Club is the first and only soccer team to agree to the Mayor of London’s Green500 campaign and has big plans to reduce its carbon footprint by at least 10 percent over the next two years.