Climate & Environment

Several years ago, a mysterious coral disease began decimating the Florida Reef. The only way to save the animals from extinction? An unprecedented mission to relocate them to facilities across the country.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's annual climate assessment shows that 2020 rivaled the hottest years in history.

"I take comfort from a natural experiment like this that we can change the world," one author said.

An analysis by a London-based think tank signaled that the world has failed to engineer a “green recovery” and shift decisively away from fossil fuels.

Climate change will bring more deadly waves of water to the United States. Here’s what the country needs to do to be prepared.

A province in Pakistan first pledged to plant 1 billion trees in 2015. The initiative was so successful that the country is now in the midst of a “Ten Billion Tree Tsunami” to fight climate change.

At a time when the Biden administration is urging international leaders to take climate action quickly, the American judicial system is operating at its own speed and direction when it comes to drilling and mining on federal lands.

U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason threw out key permits for ConocoPhillips' Willow project Wednesday on the grounds that federal officials failed to adequately analyze the project's climate impact and other possible development plans, and didn't specify how polar bears would be protected.

Unhealthy air from Western blazes has scrapped vacations and forced children across the nation to retreat indoors.

For the past decade, environmental, labor and public health groups have clamored for phasing out the pesticide that can lead to headaches or blurred vision when inhaled or ingested.

Shelters face searing temperatures, surging covid cases and a wildfire season that threatens to worsen at any moment as they rush to aid the displaced.

For those forced to flee, the Dixie Fire brought into focus a daunting question: What do you bring when you may never come home?

A study by researchers at Harvard University's school of public health attributed excess covid cases and deaths to counties in the West that suffered high levels of wildfire smoke last year.

Crustaceans in England are getting a little too excited by an additive released by underwater waste.

To cut red tape, including on clean energy projects, the Senate’s bipartisan deal would rein in public participation on many decisions on roads, transmission lines, pipelines, logging and mining. That has some advocates for environmental justice worried.