Rather than wowing its visitors this summer with world-class air pollution, China wants to impress them with its clean, green Olympics.

Researchers with the Brookings Institution have just published a blueprint for tackling what they perceive as a brewing innovation crisis. They propose that Uncle Sam create a federal agency to focus squarely on helping home-grown companies increase their innovation, productivity and profitability.

A new study finds that being environmentally conscious is no guarantee you’ll put your home where you mouth is.

After mothballing five libraries as a purported cost-cutting gesture, the agency is now responding to congressional prodding and unboxing its books.

China appears to be the world leader in carbon-dioxide emissions, but we may be partly to blame.

Climate-news watchers may have done a double-take if they caught a look at a story in today’s Washington Times. It reported that: “President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming.” If the account proves true, it will signal a Georgie-come-lately understanding by our President of the need to act on the disturbing revelations that climate scientists have been sounding about a warming of our planet. In contrast, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama have all been stumping that climate war...

There can be hidden, and substantial, costs to polio outbreaks among immigrant refugees.

Groups representing a large share of the electorate can't get the Presidential candidates to commit to a discussion of science and technology issues.

Sometimes spending a little money on vaccinations up front can save a bundle down the line.

Sometimes we run afoul through the best of intentions.

The older we get, the fewer doctors there are to attend to our frailties.