Increasing flash flooding is exhausting communities as they’re hit again and again.
The majority of endangered species listings over the years have involved habitat loss, from Chinook salmon to island foxes…
A look at cats’ diets as reported by researchers over many years shows they eat a lot more than people might think.
Too much fertilizer disrupts the hidden world of soil-dwelling microbes that were sustaining healthy crops long before synthetic…
Utilities face a dilemma: How to deliver power through dry, windy regions without accidentally starting a catastrophic fire.
Environmental DNA contained in a small sample of water, sand or even air can reveal the presence of people, wildlife and…
Birds that migrate longer distances are the ones having the most trouble keeping up with climate change.
Setting a price for power might seem straightforward, but in reality it’s extremely complicated – and residential customers…
A case involving the potential dangers of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup, relates to broader…
They’re called rock glaciers, and they might not look like much, but they’ll continue to provide meltwater after the…
A public health researcher explains the signs to watch for that someone is developing heat exhaustion or heat stroke, and…
Data center proposals are often local controversies with significant underlying principles at stake.
Detailed data is useful for understanding and addressing environmental effects on people’s lives in ways that become difficult…
Every year, the number of human-caused fires spikes on July 4, and many of them are related to fireworks. When trees and…
Both faults are along plate boundaries that move in similar ways and have ruptured in enormously destructive earthquakes…
As the national conversation shifts to political finger-pointing, an important environmental question deserves careful scrutiny:…
Decades of farmers using more fertilizer than they needed have quietly built up large reserves of nutrients in the soil.
Heat waves can be dangerous, and the conditions indoors can be worse than outdoors. A study of all the single-family homes…
When huge companies assert their patents, smaller businesses and public plant breeders are dissuaded from conducting research…
At the heart of combating misinformation is critical thinking and recognizing when you’re being spun for corporate profit.