"It’s really a win-win. It’s a win for climate, it’s a win for the environment, it’s a huge win for farmers." Read more about the Soil & Climate Initiative's work to make agriculture more sustainable in Alabama and throughout the country.

A marsh restoration on Dauphin Island is creating new habitat and slowing down flooding. Now, a researcher with The Water Institute is asking whether it can make flood insurance cheaper for nearby homeowners. southern-science.com/2025/06/05/m...

Native plants are the foundation of healthy habitats across Alabama. This year, endangered plant species will be included in the state's official conservation plan for the first time. southern-science.com/2025/05/01/s...

When a Trump cabinet official visited two Alabama mines last week, he didn’t mention their checkered safety record, including the 2023 death of a miner that federal officials concluded was the fault of the mine.

Despite all that's known about the threats facing freshwater mussels, the cause of a decades-long die-off in the Southeastern U.S. remains a mystery.

As the EPA moves its focus away from regulating and enforcing pollution standards, what does that mean for coal ash sites in Alabama? southern-science.com/2025/04/03/c...

Why are some religious faiths less likely to trust the science of topics like climate change, while other faiths embrace environmental stewardship as an act of devotion? A Samford University professor is exploring the ways that religion influences people's views on science.

"I don’t think that you could probably find an organism that is more adapted and protected from climate change.” Learn more about why dismalites, Alabama's own glowworms, are likely to survive as our planet warms.

Most of the Alabama coast's oyster population is gone. What will it take to save them?

At the University of Alabama’s CONSERVE group, researchers are combining traditional academia with Native knowledge to create a digital seed bank, preserving information about the plant species that have been significant in Choctaw culture.

In communities across Alabama, scientists, engineers and residents are partnering to solve environmental injustices. Read more about the projects happening under the Capacity Collaborative's volunteer science hub.

Check out how researchers at The University of Alabama and The University of South Alabama are trying to find innovative ways to solve microplastic pollution.

Alabama lags behind many other states in its management of water use. As extreme heat, changing weather patterns, industry and population continue to influence the available freshwater, advocates say the state needs to do more to understand and protect its water resources.

Renewable energy advocacy groups like Energy Alabama and the Southern Renewable Energy Association (SREA) are opposed to Alabama Power’s integration fee for solar and wind energy producers, which was approved this past spring.

The fight between Alabama, Georgia and Florida over water resources has been a "very touchy subject" for more than three decades. While Alabama and Georgia's governors proposed a new agreement earlier this year, it still has hurdles to clear before it can bring peace to the ACF river basin.

“In our whole watershed, this is the only dam we have. And for nature and for the critters, free-flowing water is best.” Learn more about the plans to remove this former hydroelectric dam from the Pea River in Elba, Alabama, and how this could impact both migrating fish and the nearby town.

When a coal mine is abandoned, it leaves safety and environmental hazards behind. See how Alabama's mine reclamation program is solving those problems and reclaiming abandoned mines for new purposes.

Residents of the small town of Belle Mina and its neighboring communities are trying to stop the approval of a limestone quarry right next door. Opponents say there are "so many problems" with the quarry plan. southern-science.com/2024/04/30/d...

“After we learned that there was a lot of PFAS in our water, since then we’ve been trying to create a much more extensive testing method, so we could get a foundational baseline of what we’re dealing with,” said Lucas Allison, Coosa Riverkeeper's field manager.

Check out STEMMing the Tide, a program trying to bring innovative, community-focused science lessons into middle school classrooms in the Africatown neighborhood of Mobile.

Little USA is a proposed project that would bring together solar power, agriculture, workforce development and an electric vehicle charging station on a family-owned property in Union Springs, Alabama.

“I think that the climate movement, the activists that are trying to save the world and make a change, the piece that they’re missing is the faith piece,” said Rhoda Vanderhart of Gulf Coast Creation Care. Read more about how some Alabama groups are pairing their faith with climate activism.

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