Environmental justice advocates warn that refining Venezuelan oil will concentrate more pollution and cancer risk in majority-Black communities along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast.
Key indicators, from the cost of fossil gas to the number of heat pumps sold, signal building decarbonization will march onward in the U.S. despite challenges.
Companies like Kairos Power are building new types of reactors with the encouragement of the Trump administration, but their success is far from assured.
A transformation in the seagrass meadows hidden under the surface of the Chesapeake Bay may have huge implications for fish and crabs living in the estuary.
Canada’s outdated flood maps put people at risk. In Montreal, a battle over updating them highlights a nationwide worry over home values and insurance costs
Several of Brazil’s largest grain traders are withdrawing from a nearly two-decade-old agreement that restricts soy purchases linked to Amazon deforestation.
Even as the Trump administration rolled back support for renewable energy in the U.S., wind, solar, and electric vehicles made huge strides globally in 2025.
Rock samples collected from the Greenland ice sheet’s Prudhoe Dome show it completely melted in the past 10,000 years — and could vanish again amid climate change.
Pipeline safety regulators have imposed their largest fine ever on the company responsible for leaking 1.1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast in 2023.
The end of key US tax credits for home solar, batteries and heat pumps — combined with new tariffs and domestic manufacturing rules — is expected to raise the cost of electrifying homes in 2026.
