Scientists analyzed water quality in 145 watersheds after wildfires and found dramatic spikes in contaminants.
Antarctica is a harsh continent, which in both history and fiction can trigger disturbing behavior and even madness.
Changes made to comply with executive orders could interfere with the mission of a program that has historically helped…
A public health researcher explains the signs someone is developing heat exhaustion or heat stroke, and what to do.
Conservationists have to search rough terrain and thousands of automated photographs to find the elusive cats. Artificial…
Changes to forests, and how close people and their livestock live to them, have changed tick habitats and the risks humans…
They look like devils and hence are called pez diablo in Spanish, but these demonic objects are dried and mutilated versions…
The small blue Energy Star label has become one of the most recognizable environmental certifications in the US.
Rather than feeling guilty about cooling down in extreme heat, homeowners could boost power reliability and lay a welcome…
Some technologies could rapidly cut emissions, while others do little to fight climate change. The House bill favors the…
Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike…
As baby corals float in the currents, they can expand their species’ range. But can they get to climate refuges fast enough…
A legal scholar with a Ph.D. in wildlife genetics explains the promise biotechnology techniques hold for some animals that…
The first Trump administration also used words like ‘transparency,’ ‘reproducibility’ and ‘uncertainty’ −…
If state regulators allow utilities to follow the standard approach of splitting the costs of new infrastructure among all…
Forecasters already patch together very rough estimates, and ending NOAA’s ‘billion-dollar disasters’ list means less…
For lawyers, industry, advocates and the courts, environmental review after the Eagle County decision is not just a new…
Hedges and trees may actually reduce home exposure to radiant heat and flying embers, but they must be well maintained.…
Low-income neighborhoods have the hardest time recovering from disasters without help. FEMA used to require cities to pay…
Solar energy can help grasslands weather droughts in the semi-arid American West.