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.
In the wake of the US attacks, the international community asked itself how it could ensure that such horrors were never…
The ruling stems from the harm island nations are suffering as sea level rises, and it opens a door for future claims for…
Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.
Trump’s efforts haven’t sunk global efforts to fight climate change – instead, new leaders are stepping up and working…
States take the lead on regulation of planning, site selection, leasing and other elements of offshore wind projects in…
Rural counties also benefit in jobs, manufacturing and tax revenue that will be hard to replace as the US government slashes…
As wildfire smoke becomes a frequent summer hazard across large parts of the US, knowing the risk at the neighborhood scale…