The Trump administration proposal offers an option for regulating only perennial waters, excluding a vast network of freshwater streams.
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For the first time in a decade, the U.S. avoided landfall, thanks to an atmospheric anomaly. But this hurricane season was exceptional in other bad ways, too.
A revived plan to build a massive bitumen pipeline from Alberta to BC’s northwest coast faces stark warnings from veteran energy analyst David Hughes, who says the project defies physical limits, climate goals and basic economic sense.
The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Canada's main oil-producing province bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flaring as Canadian oil production increased.
In his first interview since resigning from cabinet last week, former culture minister Steven Guilbeault says recent decisions by Prime Minister Mark Carney's government will make it impossible for Canada to meet its climate change targets.
The stretch of the river through Albuquerque has run dry twice since 2022, after not doing so for decades, impacting all forms of life that depend on its flows.
Many Filipinos say floods are worse than ever — and now, the government has admitted that vast sums were embezzled from a program meant to fight the problem.
Ten years ago, the U.S. was on track to phase out coal by 2030, thanks to the Sierra Club. Now Trump and AI are delaying the fuel’s decline.
From lease payments owed to landowners to mounting municipal tax bills and more, The Narwhal breaks down the ways Alberta oil and gas companies are shirking their bills.
Researchers warn that current climate change language can make it easier for misinformation to spread.
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away.
As viticulture suffers from the effects of climate change, German researchers are experimenting with technology that fosters growth while also harvesting electricity.
Microscopic organisms are being deployed to capture methane from sources such as farms and landfills, with the potential for reuse as fertilizer and fish food.
Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.
Indonesia’s president told survivors of last week’s devastating floods that help was arriving to those in need Monday as Asian governments scaled up their responses to a disaster that has left more than 1,000 dead in three countries.
There's no question that Maryland needs more, and cleaner, energy, and there's no question that the state is losing farmland at an alarming rate. But the state can achieve the first without worsening the second.
Residents of Thini village in Nepal face worsening damage to ancestral mudbrick homes as increasing rain and snow cause leaks and weaken walls.
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