The Biden administration acted last week to preserve rivers, lakes, and forests in northeastern Minnesota that have been threatened by copper and nickel mining. More than 225,000 acres of the Superior ...

Earth’s water cycle, as we have known it, is spinning out of balance as a result of climate change and human activities, threatening long-term water security. Last week, the World Meteorological ...

The first anniversary of the war in Ukraine has passed, and its effects on the people and the environment will last for generations to come. Thousands of people have been killed, millions displaced, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in Northern California was the go-to lender for renewable energy and clean technology firms. SVB understood the financing mechanisms unique to those industries and was the ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Much of the first dam to be deconstructed, the Copco 2, is now gone, allowing the river to flow freely at that point. Jefferson Public Radio reports that the remaining three reservoirs can be drawn ...