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June is Pride Month in the United States, and in communities across the country, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Americans are celebrating with carnivals, parades, and marches. Pride is a rebuke to the shame and marginalization many LGBT people face growing up, and a celebration of the freedoms we've won since the days when our sexual orientations were considered psychological diseases and grounds for harrassment and arrest

The devastating string of tornadoes, droughts, wildfires and floods that hit the United States this spring marks 2011 as one of the most extreme years on record, according to a new federal analysis. Just shy of the halfway mark, 2011 has seen eight $1-billion-plus disasters, with total damages from wild weather at more than $32 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Agency officials said that total could grow significantly, since they expect this year's North Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1, will be an active one.

Though it will cost just a few dollars, a new device may actually be the key to managing our aging power infrastructure and maximizing clean power. Recent rolling power outages and power failures over the past few years have highlighted just how vulnerable our power grid is to disaster. The White House just announced a $250 million loan bonanza for major smart grid deployment, but a 4-millimeter-thick chip that costs just a few dollars may actually be the key to ensuring that our aging power grid infrastructure doesn't die on us

When it comes to single-malt Scotch, sometimes you can return to the past. Or at least that’s certainly the case with Glen Garioch 1991 ($100), a very limited 19-year-old whisky of which only 120 bottles have been allocated for the United States

A massive burst of solar wind that erupted from the sun Tuesday is expected to deliver only a "glancing blow" to the Earth's vulnerable magnetic field, NASA officials said yesterday. But it will preview what some experts call a potentially existential threat to the power grids of the United States and other nations, and the populations that depend on them.

By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - China's carbon dioxide emissions rose 10.4 percent in 2010 compared to the previous year as it surpassed the United States as the world's biggest energy consumer, data released by BP on Wednesday showed. [More]

Our first day in Palau made me realize that, unlike the United States where the environment is often an afterthought, this is a place where people take pride in their connection to the natural world and work hard to protect it. [More]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Olin Browne was a part of the United States' stirring victory over Europe in the 2008 Ryder Cup at Valhalla Golf Club. Yet something was lacking, because he never touched his clubs.

LONDON (Reuters) - The world would not have to dig so much metal out of the ground if it strongly embraced recycling, which could be higher, the United Nations Environment Programme said on Thursday. Smarter product designs and support for developing country waste management schemes would encourage recycling, said Thomas Graedel, a professor at Yale University and one of the authors of a report on metals recycling rates at a briefing. [More]

Dear EarthTalk : What is “tar sands oil” and what is the controversy over possibly building a pipeline for it from Canada into the United States?-- Bill Berkley, Omaha, Neb.

For many smaller businesses, outsourcing IT to "the cloud" is tempting (read that; cheap and easy), but scary (at the mercy of someone else having an outage or getting hacked leaving the company exposed). Intel is hoping to ease anxiety with a new offering it describes as a "hybrid cloud" solution, specifically targeting nervous small business owners. See what you think

Top performers in the company are rewarded with a four-day vacation anywhere in the United States. Few technology companies from the seventies, besides Apple and Microsoft, are still around. Yet, Resource Technologies is still kicking

Work hard, then take a vacation on the company's dimejust one reason why employees love working for Eric Leighton. "We want to be a place of empowerment for employees, customers and partners," says Eric Leighton, founder and CEO, of LoadSpring Solutions. Established with a written list of core values that each employee must know and keep, Leighton says he's dedicated to keeping his company's identity intact while it expands.

Top performers in the company are rewarded with a four-day vacation anywhere in the United States.

On Saturday morning we fly to Guam, an island about one fifth the size of Rhode Island. Guam is part of the United States, although as a territory it lacks voting representation in Congress or a say in presidential elections. Location is primary in real estate speculation, but it is also central to military strategy and ecosystem management