An Ecuadorian court has blocked construction of a highway to protect a critically endangered toad, citing the rights of nature.

Efforts to save the endangered Topeka shiner have restored hundreds of oxbow lakes across Iowa. Now, those wetlands are helping to improve the state’s water quality.

A new spending bill rejects “draconian” cuts to the EPA proposed by Trump and House Republicans. But the administration’s attacks on the agency’s staff and programs still threaten its ability to protect the American people.

A look at one scientist’s journey provides a window into the Trump administration’s hollowing out of NOAA, an agency that has long been a world leader in ocean science and protection.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is fighting utilities, industrial agriculture, the mining industry and the Trump administration in a politically divided state.

A common anesthetic is also a climate super pollutant that is helping to cook the planet. A growing number of hospitals and countries are dropping the drug.

New Jersey Fibershed is an affiliate of a global movement that supports creating more sustainable clothing and fabrics from the wool of local sheep, alpacas and goats.

Scientists warn that a proposed expansion of Florida’s Port Everglades could cause unprecedented damage to corals in the U.S., including some of the only remaining endangered staghorn corals that survived a record-breaking heat wave.

Each year, winter brings smog season to Pakistan’s second-largest city. A healthy reading on the air quality index is 50 or less; in 2024, with record-breaking smog, Lahore’s AQI exceeded 1,000.

One of New York City’s best flood defenses might just be a wetland.

25 years of Everglades restoration: The historic effort was designed to replenish South Florida’s drinking water supply. Now it may help save the region from climate change.

The Valley Fire torched Idaho’s Lucky Peak in the fall of 2024. Bird researchers in the state are channeling their grief into a study of how avians respond to climate-driven blazes.

The Trump administration is moving to narrow which wetlands qualify for federal protection. But New Jersey’s stricter legal framework shows how states can fight back.

Michigan has been ahead of the curve when it comes to testing for PFAS and mitigating the issue in municipal water, but 2.6 million residents get their water from private wells—leaving large gaps in the state’s ability to mitigate contamination.

As its polluting coal ash ponds remain in groundwater, Alabama Power has doubled down on fossil fuel energy investments.

As a member of the folk band GoldenOak, Zak Kendall draws on his background in ecology and his close attention to how climate change is reshaping daily life in Maine.

This past year had a combination of policy fiascos, natural disasters and a steady march toward a future that is too hot. Here are the stories we tracked in 2025.

They won a federal grant from a program one policy leader described as “life-changing.” Then it was terminated. How are Chicago community groups picking up the pieces?

When his “segregation forever” political strategy was no longer viable, four-term Alabama governor George Wallace needed a new target for his brand of populist demagoguery. He found it in Alabama Power.

The last 10 global climate summits have played out on vastly different stages: from the hopeful consensus of the Paris Agreement through a subsequent pandemic shock, petrostate spectacles and a hoped-for reckoning with environmental justice in the Amazon.

In a state beset by sea level rise and flooding, the Blue Acres program has bought out and demolished 1,200 properties that were repeatedly inundated, turning the properties into buffer zones and open spaces.

Weather disasters are shared experiences in the Maine foothills and communities are preparing for a wetter, warmer future.

An Illinois effort aims to help water-focused startup companies. One uses bubbles with beneficial microbes to clean water. Another is working to prevent lead contamination.

As power-guzzling data centers proliferate across the country and drive electricity prices up, batteries could be a part of the solution.

Flanked by a chemical plant and an oil rig construction yard, the site at Donnel Point in Texas may be the last of its kind on this stretch of coastline, now occupied by petrochemical industries.

Both grizzly bear protections and the rule banning new roads in certain forests are in the crosshairs of the second Trump administration and Republicans in Congress.

After decades of coal mining destroyed Pennsylvania’s waterways, fracking waste is adding a new kind of pollution.

Many of the world’s most biodiverse countries are also deeply in debt. The world’s largest nation-state creditor could hold the keys to a solution. Will China step up?

Lawmakers face a critical choice as they consider EPA’s new budget: protect Americans from environmental harms or leave them without a watchdog when pollution or chemical accidents occur.

As the volume of fracking waste being produced in Pennsylvania continues to grow, insiders say the state could be doing more to protect the public and environment from radioactivity.

President Trump’s political feud with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and the White House budget office’s drive to end climate research have put the National Center for Atmospheric Research at risk.

What happens to oil and gas waste in Pennsylvania, and how much is being produced? Because there is no national regulation of this waste and a patchwork of oversight by states, it’s impossible to say.

New research shows that rooftop solar shifts costs to non-solar customers, while EVs help reduce overall costs.

Despite campaign promises to lower Americans’ energy bills, Trump’s policies pushing to increase LNG exports will have the opposite effect.

Hungary wants to become the EV battery capital of Europe, and it’s turning to China for help. What does it look like when the energy transition is driven by two autocratic governments?

The devastating floods that killed more than 1,000 people in Indonesia also pushed the world’s most critically endangered ape “closer towards population collapse,” a new study says.

Flood, storm and fire survivors gathered on Capitol Hill to criticize plans to scale back federal assistance while keeping FEMA under DHS control.

Costa Rica’s fuel subsidies are funding widespread poaching and overfishing in supposedly protected waters.

Lower electricity bills could help two Wyoming ranchers compete and pass their businesses on to their kids, they say, but lawmakers won’t let ranch-scale solar projects feed power to the grid.

After being lured to the Gulf of Maine’s warming waters to feed, young sea turtles are trapped and cold-stunned in Cape Cod as temperatures drop. A major rescue and rehabilitation response is underway to save them.

New York City’s forests are struggling under pressure from invasive species and limited maintenance. New state grants could help.

California’s oil and gas operations regularly leak and spill hydrocarbons. Yet the state recently passed a law to fast-track drilling in an effort to curb gas prices, even though the data shows they’re not related.

For the first time, global governments have agreed to widespread international trade bans and restrictions for sharks and rays being driven to extinction.

With data center developers now commonly deploying fossil fuel generators as backup power sources, a nascent industry from the renewable side of power generation—battery storage—has started elbowing its way into the fast-growing sector.

The discovery of TFA in blood and water samples opened a new front in a decades-long battle North Carolina environmentalists have been waging against forever chemicals in the state’s drinking water and air, soil and food.

U.S. oil giant Texaco spent decades polluting the Ecuadorian Amazon. Now, three arbitrators have ordered the Ecuadorian government to pay $220 million in compensation to the company.

Gas stoves play an outsized role in Americans’ exposure to harmful nitrogen dioxide pollution, a new study finds.

Days after hosting the world for climate talks, Brazil moved to weaken Amazon protections. The rollback echoes a global pattern: big promises abroad, deregulation at home.

Officials warn that if NOAA’s regional Integrated Ocean Observing System readings go dark, coastal forecasts will become less precise, endangering commercial fishermen, cargo ships and coastal communities.

Nuevo Laredo was dumping millions of gallons of sewage a day into the Rio Grande. The U.S. and Mexico worked together to find a solution.