California is supposed to be an environmental leader, but new research shows that the state allows pregnant Latina women and their unborn children to be disproportionately exposed to brain-harming pesticides called organophosphates.

Amid a slew of defeats for renewable energy in 2025, one conservative advocate still sees hope that a “big tent” approach to clean power can deliver wins for the industry.

Despite what some want you to believe, the U.S. science enterprise is far from defunct. New projects that could make make important data and reports more accessible than ever are in progress ...

As the Trump administration tries to shut down government climate programs, nonprofit teams are working to repost life-saving information on non-federal portals to ensure public access to legitimate science.

A government shutdown will likely lead to further dismantling of federal environmental science, enforcement and conservation agencies, advocates warned this week.

As Chesapeake Bay states huddle this week to agree on the next restoration agreement, a hands-off EPA is pushing to scale back goals, prompting advocates and scientists to warn of another lost decade for the bay.

Efraín Fueres, an Indigenous land defender, was shot and killed in Ecuador on Sunday while marching in protest of high living costs and government crackdowns on Indigenous and environmental activists.

Republican state lawmakers introduced nearly twice as many siting bills as Democrats in the first half of 2025—nearly all of which would restrict renewable development.

Westerners warn escalating debates over wolf management will have profound consequences not just for wolves in the contiguous U.S., but for the very laws that have fostered their return from the brink.

A Bay Area startup has proposed an AI solution to raise sinking land in flood-prone zones. Some officials and experts are skeptical.

With more than 60 countries on board, the new High Seas Treaty will soon enter into force, ushering in the world’s first framework to conserve biodiversity across two-thirds of the ocean.

The Trump administration has offered coal reserves on public lands in Wyoming in its latest move to reinvigorate the country’s coal industry.

The Passaic River is the star of a New Jersey community play, a drama that follows the life of a Superfund site.

New research suggests that exposure to high heat and air pollution in the womb is altering brain development, affecting mental health and behavior years down the road.

You may have noticed your electricity bills are going up by a lot. Here’s a look at how much household electricity prices have risen nationally and in each state.

At Climate Week in New York, a subtle shift in rhetoric begins to normalize the idea of overshoot, which means surpassing 1.5°C of global warming, with no surefire way of bringing the fever back down.

Eating fruits and vegetables are critical to a healthy diet. But when you eat your spinach—or kale, strawberries, raisins or many other favorites—you’re likely to ingest a hefty dose of pesticides too, new research shows.

A New Jersey bill awaiting the signature of Gov. Phil Murphy could reshape the relationship between the state and one of the fastest-growing industries amid the artificial intelligence boom: data centers.

Environmental scientists are using artificial intelligence to create “deepfake” animal images to aid conservation efforts.

President Trump went to the U.N. to say climate change is not a major concern and warn against the “green new scam,” a message that seemed to come from a different reality than that of other leaders.

Pennsylvania’s governor says the state “will be forced to go in a different direction” if grid operator PJM Interconnection does not make “significant” changes.

Democrats charge that the Trump administration’s squeeze on clean energy supply is having an inevitable consequence: higher electricity prices. The energy debate has ramped up as a government shutdown looms.

“Regenerative agriculture” is the latest buzzy marketing term in the food world, but without a clear, regulated definition or strong certification programs, it means little, critics say.

A toxic mining spill devastated Zambian farmers’ livelihoods, releasing millions of gallons of waste into the environment. The Chinese company responsible told shareholders the spill did not have “a significant impact.”

Pennsylvania was an early pioneer in renewable energy, but its progress stalled out in the early 2000s. Will the state ever catch up?

People living near the Aliso Canyon natural gas blowout in L.A.'s upscale Porter Ranch won an emergency declaration from Gov. Jerry Brown to help them relocate until it was thought safe to return. People in Latino and historically Black communities near #ChiquitaCanyonLandfill have not. A thread. /1

The world’s top fossil fuel countries still plan to produce more than twice as much coal, gas and oil as would be consistent with climate goals. In fact, they’re planning even more than they were two years ago.

Dust storms can be deadly, and scientists warn that the Midwest may have to contend with more of them: “There’s no question that climate change is one of the major drivers of dust.”

Natural gas companies argued that increasing production would lower Pennsylvanians’ electric bills. But in the last few years, residents’ bills have only gone up.

As utility costs rise nationwide, a small town in Iowa is seeing its heating and cooling costs steadily decline after installing one of the nation’s first geothermal networks.

Pregnant women who lived closest to the Aliso Canyon disaster near Los Angeles during their final trimester were twice as likely to have low birth weight babies, a risk factor for childhood and adult disease, new research found.

A proposed gold mine in Nevada will be one of the first projects permitted under revised guidance for the National Environmental Policy Act under the Trump administration.

A $$92,000 settlement agreement in North Carolina ends a four-year legal battle over a cattle farm’s damage to mountain streams.

In Virginia, a proposed natural gas plant to enable data center growth could emit more toxins than the former coal plant it’s replacing.

Solar energy has been slow to get off the ground in Iowa. Utilities may finally be realizing its potential.

Smoke from climate-driven wildfires will kill nearly 2 million Americans by 2055, a new study concludes.

Chinese miners are illegally plundering gold from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, causing vast environmental destruction and endangering human health, a new report says.

New research tracks the alarming number of European heat deaths linked with human-caused global warming.

Since 2012, at least 2,253 environmental defenders have been murdered or disappeared. Far more have been abducted, threatened, harassed and assaulted.

As federal incentives for clean energy diminish, some faith groups are helping religious communities save on energy costs. One Detroit church found solar panels a bit of a godsend.

The rise of authoritarianism and nationalist populism in some countries raises the risks that a rogue state could unilaterally launch dangerous sun-dimming solar geoengineering projects, some experts warned at a recent U.N. Environmental Programme workshop.

“Legislators always play catch-up”: Will Pennsylvania address the challenges posed by the rapid development of data centers for AI?

A California teen started an economics journal to reveal how climate change increases the costs of natural hazards. “We’re going to be inheriting this problem, and we might actually have a chance of slowing it down.”

Officials in rural Athens County, Ohio, worry their communities aren’t prepared for worsening floods. A group is working on an ambitious plan to protect residents and even reduce flooding itself.

In the underserved agricultural communities of Florida’s heartland, some work overtime while others go without insurance entirely, as the state’s insurance crisis hits hardest here.

Republicans and Democrats in Congress agree—they don’t want big cuts to NOAA’s budget and they aim to keep the agency’s research division alive, despite the Trump administration’s plan to kill it.

More than 2 million people were displaced this summer in Pakistan, as a climate-driven monsoon brings devastating floods.

Trump and RFK Jr. cancelled more than $1 billion in grants to study, control and prevent deadly neglected tropical diseases, which afflict people living in poverty worldwide.

As federal clean energy programs vanish under Trump, graduates of a New Jersey reentry solar training program face an uncertain future.

With effective weather forecasting, testing with “hail cannons,” and an ability to go into “stow” mode, solar panels can tolerate extreme weather events like hailstorms.