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That’s 42 percent higher than the 10-year average.
Experts say we can't adopt clean energy without more long-distance power lines. But congressional gridlock is getting in the way.
New research makes clear the link between climate change and prison mortality.
As a warming world creates an existential threat for the ski industry, resorts are reducing how much energy they need to make it snow.
As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.
Mining waste would have jeopardized the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.
Solar advocates in southwestern Virginia say being local, proving the technology works, and building a coalition to support it have been key to their success.
The Agriculture Department just restored the so-called Roadless Rule, but federal land swaps could still open forest lands to logging.
Here’s what happened when two climate reporters tried to ditch natural gas.
