The founder of HEATED on fossil fuel advertising, billionaires taking over media, and what removing plastic from her life is teaching her about systems change.

Indigenous wisdom offers a diagnosis of what ails our world — and understanding it is the first step toward a cure.

The Quapaw Nation is the only US Native community to carry out a cleanup of one of the country’s worst sites of environmental contamination

Phasing out fuel oil in buildings, improved energy efficiency and cleaner, greener cars contributed to a 5% decline between 2023 and 2024.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.

In what are dangerous times for democracies around the world, parliament’s overhaul of nature laws in the EPBC Act shows ambitious reform remains possible

Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.

The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and is responsible for around one-third of current global heating.

Mounting evidence shows no US state is safe from the flooding that ravaged Texas’ Kerr Country.

New York is now the first state to require new buildings to be built entirely electric, without hookups to fossil fuels including gas.

The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

More than 60,000 metric tons of food have languished in warehouses in the United States and around the world — with expiration dates nearing on some items.

Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research

A new peer-reviewed study has linked pesticides as a likely cause to a mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies that occurred in 2024.

Tell Congress to reject any proposal that weakens the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Weather forecasting, emergency prepared...

Thousands of mollusks and worms have been discovered by a Chinese submersible in the Mariana Trench, almost six miles below sea level.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo plans to open 306 million acres of tropical forest and gorilla habitat to oil and gas drilling.

World hunger fell overall last year, but continued to rise in most of Africa and western Asia, according to a new report.

For 2025, Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 24, the earliest it has been since the event was first calculated in 2006.

The biggest casualty? Climate science.

The underground fungi networks that help sustain Earth’s ecosystems are in need of urgent conservation action, according to SPUN.

In a landmark finding, the UN’s top court stated that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a human right.

More than 25% of USFS firefighting positions are vacant, creating shortages as extreme conditions lead to wildfires across the country.

New map data from NRDC finds widespread toxic levels of PFAS "forever chemicals" in the tap water for over 73 million people in the U.S.

Renewable energy sources such as solar helped keep power on in New England during peak demand on the hottest day this summer.

Environmentalists in South Korea are campaigning for bottlenose dolphins to be given the endanged species “legal personhood” status.

Twenty states sued the Trump administration for shutting down a program intended to strengthen natural disaster preparation and mitigation.

The lawyer Raphael Lemkin hoped to use international law to curb abuses of power. But his efforts were curtailed from the start.

In the first study of its kind, scientists from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have documented an acoustic interaction between insects and plants.

Humans have the power to harm mountain ecosystems, but also the power to protect them as citizens, consumers, policymakers and tourists.

Extreme heat, excessive rainfall and ongoing droughts are now considered the new normal, according to the UK Met Office.

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

While wealthy coastal counties bear the brunt of landfalling storms, poor residents in inland counties are navigating an even bleaker insurance market that leaves them at risk of no coverage.

Climate change is decreasing crops' nutritional value, in addition to the stress crops experience from extreme heat, drought and flooding.