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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Gardeners, if you've ever been tempted to give Mother Nature a little nudge, consider installing a greenhouse.

Marijuana growing is not a green industry.

One of the best parts of the summer for me is hitting the lake with family and friends. I love relaxing on the water and feeling the sun on my skin. What I don't love is jumping through hurdles to find the safest sunscreen among all the different varieties on store shelves. This year though, sunscreen manufacturers are required to make a few important changes to their sunscreen labels. While these changes will help you Do Your Part to make the healthiest sunscreen choice for your family, there's still plenty of homework for you.

The night Meghan Wren got stranded by floodwaters and had to sleep in her car, she knew it was time for a reckoning.

Eric York was obsessed with the big cats - their health, temperaments and survival rates amid the park's annual tourist invasion.

The night Meghan Wren got stranded by floodwaters and had to sleep in her car, she knew it was time for a reckoning.

It's time to dream of those summertime sandwiches and BLTs, made with tomatoes you grow in your own yard - in pots or the ground.

The Interior Department proposed new rules to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on federal lands Thursday, drawing criticism from environmentalists that it had weakened an earlier draft to placate industry.

Ah the family pet. A source of great joy, deep camaraderie and yes, at least occasional frustration.

The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Wednesday, May 15:

A warming climate is melting the glaciers of Mount Everest, shrinking the frozen cloak of Earth's highest peak by 13 percent in the last 50 years, researchers have found.

On a curve of the Potomac River 37 miles northwest of Washington, the Dickerson power plant has stood sentry over small villages, crop fields and horse farms for more than half a century.

Who would think this soft landscape, with its undulating blue waves of wildflowers, flitting butterflies and calls of meadowlark, could be the scene of such battle.

Hour after hour, Brian Dunn lofted his fly line into the turquoise-blue water of this shimmering desert lake north of Reno.

At first, the whale chatter was just a nuisance.

The sounds of spring are most definitely here. You know, the loud buzz of the lawn mowers, the piercing sound of leaf blowers, the incessant whir of the trimmers. Not only is there the noise pollution to contend with, there is also the air, land, and water pollution that comes with gas powered lawn equipment. This summer, Do Your Part to pick smarter equipment that will not only cut down pollution but will cut down on your lawn maintenance costs.

An epic battle is raging in South Florida: man against snail.

Climate change could lead to the widespread loss of common plants and animals around the world, according to a study released Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

When Daniel Wilson learned earlier this year that the State of California wants to bulldoze his family's pear orchard to build a giant Sacramento River water diversion, he and his brother were making a major new investment in the crop.

WASHINGTON-The ratio of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has surpassed 400 parts per million in an average daily reading at Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory, the highest concentration of the heat-trapping greenhouse gas in millions of years.

Wiggling masses of white-orange-and-black caterpillars are emerging from their silken nests to munch on tender leaves - signaling a second spring when Western tent caterpillars might be out in big numbers.

LOS ANGELES-Federal wildlife officials took the unprecedented step Friday of telling private companies that they will not be prosecuted for inadvertently harassing or even killing endangered California condors.

Two federal agencies on Friday announced a major review of how seismic testing for oil and gas deposits affects marine mammals and fish in deep waters off the Gulf of Mexico.

The Obama administration on Friday released a national strategy for the Arctic in advance of Secretary of State John Kerry’s trip next week to Sweden to attend a conference of eight polar nations.

If last year's record temperatures were any indication - 2012 ranks as one of the hottest years on record - you can plan to once again crank up your home's air conditioner this summer.

Nothing says "thank you, Mom" or "thank you, BFF" like a fresh bouquet of flowers, especially in an arrangement you create yourself.

"Imaginary Worlds: Plants Larger Than Life" opened Saturday at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, featuring 19 sculptures festooned with 118,000 living plants.

Thousands of Olympia streetlights could be converted from the traditional yellowish, high-pressure sodium lights to whiter, energy-saving LED lamps, in a project estimated to cost nearly $4 million.

More than 5,000 products, including clothing, toys and bedding, contain toxic chemicals that could be dangerous for children’s health, yet stores still stock them and consumers know little about their content, an advocacy group reported this week.