The action taken by the Trump administration “...is not only harmful, it’s illegal.” That was the reaction of Erik Olson, of the Natural Resources Defense Council to the EPA’s plan to roll back ...

According to a law passed in 1990, every four years the federal government is required to issue the National Climate Assessment on the effects of global warming on the U.S. Now, the Trump ...

Last Thursday, February 27, about 800 employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, were fired by the Trump administration. In addition, about 500 others left their jobs ...

With all that as background, the new Planetary Health Check report came out last week, saying that the patient—planet Earth—is in critical condition. In its assessment, the Potsdam Institute for ...

One rarely hears about someone in the military defying a direct order, but that’s what’s happening in Tucson, Arizona, because of a recent Supreme Court decision. Last May, the Environmental ...

In just 24 hours, the area, which is generally very dry, received more rain than what typically falls in a year, from Storm Daniel in the Mediterranean, similar to a hurricane and called a “medicane.” ...

The U.S. is facing a slow-rolling crisis over access to clean, safe drinking water but lacks a coordinated response to address the root causes of the problems, many of which are aging infrastructure.

Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) are the largest of the 18 penguin species that exist today. They have adapted to survive in Antarctic temperatures that can drop to -50 Celsius (-58 F) and ...

The coral reefs are already stressed from pollution and overfishing, and portions were bleached about eight years ago when water temperature rose under El Niño conditions, according to the Washington ...

In Hawai’i, wildfires on Maui claimed at least 93 lives as of August 13, making it the deadliest wildfire in the U.S. in a century. According to AccuWeather, there could be $8 to $10 billion in losses ...

On Tuesday, June 6, a major hydroelectric dam on the Dnipro River in Ukraine was blown up, which will likely have devastating impacts not only on thousands of people and agriculture but also on ...

As many communities across the country remove lead water lines following the Flint, Michigan, crisis, there’s concern they may be “leaping from the frying pan into the fire” if they replace those ...