Emerging digital tools can help authorities prioritize inspections and rapidly identify illicit goods by linking online…
US Olympic skiers and scientists explain the sharp differences between natural snow and machine-made snow, from the science…
Desalination of seawater and sewage treatment plants leave behind water that contains high concentrations of salt, metals…
Innovations have made recent Winter Games possible, but the future climate will have a big impact on where the Olympics…
The government directed data centers to turn on backup generation in parts of the US. Expanding distributed generation could…
A federal judge dealt one blow to the effort when he found the administration had violated the law in handpicking a panel…
Winter storms create many hazards, from slick ice to freezing temperatures. People often underestimate how quickly conditions…
Many homeowners could save money on their heating bills by installing heat pumps – but not everyone, and not everywhere.
In the world of cost benefit analysis, if an impact isn’t monetized, it doesn’t exist. A former EPA official explains…
Electric vehicles are a fast-growing share of auto sales in many countries, and Chinese automakers are benefiting as the…
Some of these ‘forever chemicals’ are toxic at very low levels. They can get into water systems and bioaccumulate in…
Greenland’s inhabitants call it Kalaallit Nunaat, or land of the Kalaallit. It is an Indigenous nation whose relatively…
Ski resorts in Colorado can make snow, but it only goes so far.
Excess road and sidewalk salt flows into storm drains and ultimately into area streams and rivers, affecting fish and other…
One of North America’s richest ecosystems, sustained and shaped by Native peoples before European contact, nearly disappeared.…
Despite Brazil’s recent expansions of protected areas, research shows that the favorite habitats of whales and dolphins…
Plants need phosphorus, and other nutrients, to grow. But soil tests can’t tell if there’s too much.
The atmosphere is a complicated place. Warm temperatures in one spot can contribute to brutally cold storms somewhere else.
Artificial intelligence systems have big environmental costs but are also finding ways to save energy and water, cut emissions…
Coal mines are notorious sources of acid mine drainage, but the orange sludge that threatens water supplies and wildlife…