What happens when drought weakens trees, storms topple them and bark beetles move in? A detailed new model shows how overlapping climate stresses will accelerate European forest changes in the coming decades.
Texas is now the leader in electricity generation from utility-scale solar, and other news from the latest batch of federal energy data.
Frustrated with a lack of action on climate change, some university students are researching technologies that could curb the Earth’s warming trajectory despite pushback from other scientists.
Toxic chemicals have been leaking from Brenntag Mid-South’s chemical repackaging facility and into a stream that feeds into Third Fork Creek and Jordan Lake—the drinking supply for over a million people.
Border walls, wire, and clearcutting are reshaping the Rio Grande near Roma, Tx—threatening native habitat and blocking community access.
Trump’s desire to have data centers provide their own power comes after months of multiple efforts to address reliability, cost-shifting concerns
For the first time, elephant seals in California tested positive for highly pathogenic bird flu.
“Everybody has pretty much had enough”: Why Pennsylvania residents are organizing to stop data center development.
With Iran targeting oil and gas sites and the Trump administration saying bombing could last weeks, experts warn that “a really dangerous phase” could loom with lasting impacts on oil and gas markets.
Chances are your electricity bills are way up. Here’s a look at how a typical bill has changed in each state during Trump’s first full year in office.
“It’s not just about the trees, it’s about the people”: Why looking southward for tree species that can handle the climate a city will have in 50-100 years matters for the residents there.
The IRS gave the largest U.S. LNG producer and exporter a $370 million refund for ‘alternative fuel’ tax credits that critics say it never should have received.
Why have tech companies like Google and Microsoft become so integrated in agriculture? And who is benefiting from their involvement? “They are shaping what technologies are developed, how food production decisions are made, and what the future of farming looks like.”
Exposure to pollution is a choice, former EPA experts say in a new report. And Trump’s EPA is choosing to make Americans sicker.
EPA’s latest rollback includes rescinding a requirement for coal and oil plants to use continuous monitoring systems that provide a more accurate picture of their pollution.
North Carolina coastal regulators formally objected to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ $1.2B plan to dredge 28 miles of Wilmington Harbor, saying the proposal conflicts with state coastal policies and lacks key information on environmental harms, including PFAS contamination and wetland loss.
“Their future is now in doubt.” Decades of commercial whaling once drove whales to the point of near-extinction in the 19th and 20th century—now, climate change is threatening the future of the population.
Reef-building corals are disappearing faster than scientists can document them and proposed amendments to the Endangered Species Act will only make it worse, international researchers warn.
While the state of New Jersey is facing an “affordability crisis,” the state is giving a $250 million tax break for the development of an artificial intelligence data center called CoreWeave.
As climate change pushes more destructive weather across Georgia, a new storm recovery charge could soon hit Georgia Power customers’ bills.
Rising ocean temperatures are shrinking cool-water feeding grounds which are putting humpback whales at a greater risk of getting entangled in fishing gear close to shore. Scientists say ocean forecasting could help fisheries mitigate this risk.
Three climate and justice nonprofits filed an appeal before the Virginia Supreme Court on Tuesday arguing that the new Dominion Energy natural gas plant in Chesterfield County doesn’t comply with either the state’s environmental justice or clean economy acts.
Most policies have been aimed at minimizing agriculture’s impact on forests. A new study says the focus should be on grass and wetlands, too.
Data centers in Virginia have been exempt from paying retail sales and use tax on their computer equipment since 2008 so long as they invest $150 million and create 50 jobs. In 2025, those tax exemptions were worth $1.9 billion to data centers—equal to 2% of the state's budget.
Nine months after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled a climate impact lawsuit filed by city and county officials in Boulder against Suncor Energy and ExxonMobile could move forward, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the fossil fuel companies’ appeal of that decision.
20 percent of the fish we eat carries a secret criminal history. Is your sushi in fact toxic? Is your fresh fish actually frozen? Is your shrimp in fact vegan?
“Nature loss translates directly into lives shortened and lost,” a new report says. Poor Americans and communities of color face the brunt of disappearing green spaces.
A majority of New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions stem from buildings—and although the city’s utilities keep investing in natural gas, it conflicts with the state’s climate goals. Experts worry that ratepayers will eventually struggle to keep up with rising costs.
