This volume covers seven major indicators of environmental progress, including air quality, energy, climate change, water quality, toxic chemicals, forests and land, and biodiversity.

Improvements seen across key environmental indicators should be cause for celebration this Earth Day, according to Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D., author of the new book "Almanac of Environmental Trends."

This annual report highlights significant environmental developments and milestones in the United States and worldwide.

The 2008 Index concentrates on energy and environmental linkages among the leading developed and developing nations.

As it has done over the past dozen years, the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators shines a spotlight on, and deepens Americans' understanding of, environmental progress.

This edition of the Index highlights the positive trends occurring in key areas including climate change, air quality, water quality, toxic chemicals, and biodiversity in the United States.

This edition of the Index reveals that environmental quality continues to improve in many key areas, including air pollution, mercury emissions, wetlands, and forestlands.

The Obama administration should have cancelled the summit as soon as it learned that China was going back on its word – that is, until Chen and his family could go back to the embassy and get out of China. As the Chen Guangcheng saga gets stranger and stranger, and becomes a major diplomatic embarrassment for the United States