Topic: Cuyahoga River

Focus On Earth Day 2013, a planetary report card on global warming

Planetary carbon dioxide concentrations are the highest they've been in the past 800,000 years, an ignominious milestone for Earth Day 2013. Still, the world is making some progress toward addressing global warming.

Clean Water Act at 40: Is it failing to meet new pollution challenges?

Congress passed the far-reaching Clean Water Act 40 years ago. The measure scored dramatic environmental successes, including with Lake Erie. But now Erie, and the law, are besieged.

Baseball fans: Take a quick tour of all 30 major league ballparks

Authors Josh Pahigian and Kevin O’Connell explore America's major league ballparks in "The Ultimate Baseball Road."

Cleveland anarchists' getaway plan: a box full of thumbtacks

Five men were arrested Monday for an alleged conspiracy to blow up a bridge near Cleveland. Their purported discussions about their plans are detailed in a 22-page affidavit.

Super Tuesday: For some Ohio voters, Santorum's populist touch resonates

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have striven to explain how each is distinguished from the other. Surveys taken ahead of Super Tuesday in Ohio show the two candidates are in a dead heat.

In Pictures Companies that have paid big for environmental disasters

In Pictures Big Environmental Disasters

Editor's Blog Happy Earth Day: Apologies for the late thank-you card

We're marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. That's a little embarrassing considering our 4.5 billion-year-old planet has been so hospitable.
04/22/2010 09:26 am

Difference Maker Veronica Egan and the 'Great Old Broads' keep vigil over endangered wild lands.

The conservation group, made up mostly of older women, helps the US government track illegal use of public lands in the US West.
01/26/2010 10:02 am

The Monitor's View Chesapeake Bay left up a creek

Failure of cleanup efforts has left America's largest estuary still nearly 'dead.' Why?
01/12/2009 12:00 am