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Black and indigenous organizers from across the Mississippi River basin called to grant the river legal standing at a summit in late May. It's part of a nascent movement that has won success abroad and is picking up steam in the U.S.
How poor methane rules are costing tribes and taxpayers.
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.
From the Southwest to the Jersey shore, climate change is altering the traditions and norms that have defined summer for generations.
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.