Earth Matters: Devices working around-the-clock to combat ocean pollution

Researchers are deploying new technologies to filter plastics and other debris that is threatening the viability of our oceans

• Apr 22, 2019

India's pollution makes everyone "a smoker" — but there's hope

In a country where nearly 1.8 million people die every year from breathing the air, politicians and entrepreneurs are trying to go green

• Apr 22, 2019

Deforestation's effects on the climate

For Earth Day, CBS News correspondent Vladimir Duthiers spent three days in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, where he spoke to scientists about deforestation's effects on the climate. He joins CBSN from Brasilia, Brazil, to discuss what he discovered.

• Apr 22, 2019

Earth Matters: Behind the battle against deforestation in the Amazon rainforest

In the world's largest jungle, scientists are trying to understand the effects of cutting down so many trees for farmland

• Apr 22, 2019

CBS News poll: Growing number think environment will be worse for next generation

Americans give the U.S. just average or low marks on the progress it has made on protecting the environment

• Apr 22, 2019

How wind and solar became America's cheapest energy

A virtuous loop of dropping prices and rising interest has propelled clean energy to the top spot it holds today

• Apr 22, 2019

Trump buildings may be forced to go green under sweeping NYC climate bill

A bill could make the president's properties comply with the kind of regulations he has rejected and mocked

• Apr 21, 2019

SpaceX suffers Crew Dragon engine test anomaly

SpaceX suffers engine "anomaly" in Crew Dragon test vehicle during Cape Canaveral engine test

• Apr 20, 2019

Giant "lion" fossil found inside drawer at Kenyan museum

If it were standing today, the beast would be larger than a polar bear

• Apr 19, 2019

Bees atop Notre Dame Cathedral survive fire

European bees don't flee their hives in danger; they stayed put and got drunk on smoke

• Apr 19, 2019

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