Restoring western forests – thinning out small trees and dead wood – is an important strategy for reducing the risk…
Molina, who died on Oct. 8, 'thought climate change was the biggest problem in the world long before most people did.'…
Over 820 million people around the world go to bed hungry at night, and that tide is rising. For working to reverse it,…
PFAS chemicals are toxic, widespread and persistent in the environment, and the federal government has been slow to regulate…
Similar arrangements already support the National Park Service, the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies.
Republicans and Democrats take sharply different positions on managing US public lands, but there's solid consensus…
Conservation or copper? A proposed mine in northern Minnesota pits industrial jobs against a thriving outdoor economy.
Greenland's glaciers have retreated so far that they can no longer support the ice sheet that feeds them. The ice sheet…
A team of researchers found the southernmost tree and forest on Earth at the extreme tip of South America. Wind limits where…
Extreme shrinkage of summer sea ice is just the latest evidence of rapid Arctic warming – and what happens in the Arctic…
New risk models show nearly twice as many properties are at risk from a 100-year flood today than the government's flood…
Life in captivity causes observable harm to the structure and function of large mammals' brains.
Hurricane stalling has become common over the past half-century, and their average forward speed has also slowed.
The pandemic recession has reduced US energy demand, roiling budgets in states that are major fossil fuel producers. But…
In an unusual twist, many of those storms have been forming closer to the US coast.
Wildfires aren't always wild. Many of the most expensive and damaging fires happen in suburban areas, and nearly all…
Can a plan that brings together government and private landowners create enough habitat for monarch butterflies?
Two environmental engineers say governments need to do more to protect people from possible water contamination after wildfires.
Debating whether climate change or forest management has caused the devastating wildfires in California, Washington and…
Hurricane Harvey destroyed the fishing infrastructure of Aransas Bay and reduced fishing by 80% over the following year.…