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The Ogallala Aquifer serves farming communities in multiple states. When it runs dry, the agriculture industry in Texas and the nation is in jeopardy.
How do researchers know? Stardust.
Activists say public power would lower bills and expand clean energy. But they face tough opposition from investor-owned utilities.
A developer wanted to build a facility to capture carbon. Locals saw an environmental menace.
More than 50,000 pages of newly released documents detail how the security firm targeted pipeline opponents and tried to profit off its surveillance tactics.
Nebraska is now the only Republican-controlled state in the U.S. to aim for total decarbonization of its power sector by midcentury.
Everyone wants a piece of the lovingly nicknamed "Appalachian banana.” Can the species survive warming temperatures?
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a far-reaching, bipartisan bill to conserve wildlife on Tuesday, opening the door to much-needed federal funding to protect endangered plants and animals.
A hurricane-strength storm system unleashed torrential rainfall over the deep Nebraska snowpack.