Subalpine wetlands in the Rocky Mountains are warming, creating the perfect conditions for producing methylmercury, a potent…
In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the state’s residences with…
Looking back on New Orleans 20 years after Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that while such hazards may be natural, the death…
Uniquely colored flowers with big blooms might make for an aesthetically pleasing garden, but they can be unhelpful to pollinators.…
Water systems are vulnerable to melting plastic components, toxic contamination and failures that can leave firefighters…
Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges…
The drought has been linked to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a natural climate pattern. A new study finds global warming…
Carbon dioxide emissions trap heat in the atmosphere, warming the planet. Too much CO2 can disrupt the climate and oceans.
The 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health underpins many U.S. climate policies. A new report meant to…
New technologies are making it easier to find these urban heat islets, opening the door to new strategies for efficiently…
Exciting as it sounds, most of this technology is still locked away in labs, not available in airports.
Acid rain and metals from power plants, vehicles and industries reached remote mountain lakes for years. Evidence from those…
Long-standing water-use agreements allocate more water than the river and its basin actually contain, forcing users to cut…
Parts of California are seeing fire season start more than 10 weeks earlier now than in the 1990s.
States used to be on their own when a disaster hit. Then the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the Dust Bowl showed…
Studies have linked ticks on 6 continents to alpha-gal syndrome and its unusual symptoms. An entomologist explains what…
The American public agrees that vehicle emissions are harmful and should be regulated, and has indicated strong preferences…
The voices of the Hibakusha offer not only memory, but also moral clarity in an age of growing peril.
The National Park Service is not just focused on helping people enjoy the outdoors, but also on conserving wild places.
Power grids could likely handle the surge of demand, but all that light would pollute dark zones nearby.