Scientists are racing to count Porcupine caribou amid climate changes and ramped up pushes for oil and gas. Despite the odds, there’s optimism for the future.
A state program offering $35 million in tax incentives to boost Massachusetts’ offshore wind industry has seen no takers for two straight years, underscoring how supply chain woes, federal rollbacks, and economic uncertainty have stalled clean energy ambitions.
Singapore’s reputation as one of the world’s cleanest cities is being put to the test by a surge in rodent and insect infestations that experts say is being fueled by climate change and heat stress.
Countries are falling short on reducing emissions, but British data scientist Hannah Ritchie looks at the numbers and sees the world making real gains on climate change.
An El Segundo refinery fire has renewed questions about who is investigating the state’s oil industry after serious accidents. With the U.S. Chemical Safety Board defunded, California has yet to fill the gap.
As a warming climate intensifies storms, KFF Health News has identified more than 170 U.S. hospitals at risk of significant and potentially dangerous flooding. Climate experts warn that the Trump administration’s cuts leave the nation less prepared.
New research finds that few of the millions of planted trees in Africa's Great Green Wall survive due to limited rainfall, grazing livestock, and slow disbursement of pledged funds.
30,000 Chinese workers travel thousands of miles to remote islands in Eastern Indonesia to process nickel — and put their lives at risk on the frontier of the green energy transition.
Food group Nestlé says it has withdrawn from a global alliance for cutting methane emissions that aims to reduce the impact of dairy farming on global warming.
Sprawling AI data centers, hungry for land, water and power, are coming. Plans for the world’s largest, called Wonder Valley, are underway in a drought-stricken region in Alberta.
Recycling doesn’t address any of plastic’s human and environmental impacts. It’s essentially another form of plastic production, one that usually hurts low-income communities.
