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A dangerous collision of storm surge, torrential rain, and sea level rise threatens to overwhelm communities from Texas to Maine.
A 20-year study of diets in 149 countries finds that teenagers have the heaviest individual carbon footprints from food, even as aging populations drive the largest overall increase in emissions.
A new wave of young activists in the Maldives is tackling issues like coastal erosion and plastic pollution in the Indian Ocean island nation.
New research suggest that swapping your internal combustion engine for an EV is almost always the greener choice.
Already this summer, 770 New Mexicans have visited statewide emergency rooms for heat-related illnesses. That’s more than all of last summer.
Since April, the Defense Department has halted all military reviews for wind projects, stalling dozens of projects nationwide.

Agreement with RWE is the fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects.

Wind and solar generation are surging in Utah’s power mix, and experts expect the trend to continue despite cuts to federal clean energy incentives.

A pro-renewable energy political action committee was behind Representative Andy Ogles' primary loss Thursday.

The Nueces River Authority is working on a project that could expand the Corpus Christi region’s water supply, but the Texas governor has done little to address the agency’s financial problems, despite appointing every member of its board.

The Earth has not given up. Neither can we.
As regulations have reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions from vehicles and industry in recent years, smoke from climate-fueled wildfires is erasing air quality gains.

While “smoke taint” from last month’s hazy skies isn’t an immediate threat, grape growers say it comes on the heels of a growing season already fraught with climate extremes.

As Washington state reels from a devastating wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes in Spokane last weekend, experts say the disaster has cast newfound uncertainty over a property insurance market.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that Americans are increasingly noticing the impact of extreme heat on their lives, and much of that shift is happening in the West and Midwest.

An appeals court ruling unfreezing the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund could be a major boost for efforts to bring clean energy to communities around the country — or just the latest turn of the legal screw.

Britain's cereal harvest is on track to be the worst since comparable records began in 1984, as crops wither after one of the driest and hottest spring-summer periods on record.

The startup, newly valued at $13 billion, is now manufacturing batteries in Texas. It offers an affordable way for homeowners to get backup power and it helps the grid too.

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