By Elaine Donnelly
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Eight Greenpeace activists who chained themselves to a Jerusalem bridge to demand that President Obama stop the drilling in the Arctic were arrested Thursday.
"Xena: Warrior Princess" actor Lucy Lawless says she's won a "great victory" after a New Zealand judge handed her a modest sentence but declined to order costs sought by oil company Shell for her role in a protest aboard an oil-drilling ship.
An attempt to protect Europe's bee population has kicked up a hornets' nest.
An attempt to protect Europe's bee population has kicked up a hornets' nest.

Critics are slamming a leaked draft U.N. climate report that features global warming advocacy groups like the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace made appearances alongside scientific studies.

One look at the ever-growing chorus of radical groups clamoring for Senate filibuster reform should be enough for anyone to understand what's really motivating the efforts.
A dispute over money clouded U.N. climate talks Friday, as rich and poor countries sparred over funds meant to help the developing world cover the rising costs of mitigating global warming and adapting to it.
U.N. climate talks are heading into the final stretch with a host of issues unresolved, including a standoff over how much money financially stressed rich countries can spare to help the developing world tackle global warming.

The legal fight against Obamacare lives on. On Monday, the Supreme Court vacated an appellate court ruling that had favored the health care takeover and granted opponents a second chance to make their case that the law is unconstitutional.

President Obama has made it pretty clear to his environmental extremist friends that during his second term, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will pursue a more aggressive, wider-reaching agenda than it has to date. That's a very troubling prospect. Not only has EPA Director Lisa P. Jackson's agency been wildly and needlessly intrusive into the private sector during the past four years, but its agenda increasingly has been based less and less on science and data and more and more on conjecture and hyperbole. Thus, Mrs. Jackson's EPA has become almost indistinguishable -- in a policy sense -- from the environmental groups to which it panders. Science suffers as a result.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Monday it no longer will seek oil off the coast of Alaska this year after suffering several setbacks.

Global warming has ignited a rush to exploit Arctic resources — and Greenpeace is determined to thwart that stampede.
Global warming has ignited a rush to exploit Arctic resources _ and Greenpeace is determined to thwart that stampede.

It was hard to find a happy soul at the end of the Rio+20 environmental summit.
The environmental group Greenpeace launched a global campaign for greater protection of the arctic on Thursday, backed by celebrities such as Robert Redford, Penelope Cruz and Paul McCartney.