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While AI helps monitor deforestation and illegal mining, data centers powering the technology are claiming water, energy, and minerals from Indigenous lands.
Drought conditions have been worsening for months in the Southeast. Now tens of thousands of acres are burning, displacing people and destroying dozens of home…
Warming ocean waters are priming beaches and raw shellfish for Vibrio. Scientists are trying to stay one step ahead.
Since Utah passed a law last year, 30 more states and the District of Columbia have drafted similar bills.
The fight over the roadless rule has long focused on the West, but its repeal could fragment some of the last pristine forests in the eastern United States.
Solar power is cheap, fast, and in demand as data centers consume more and more electricity.
The moratorium is the first of its type to pass a legislative chamber, but about a dozen other states have pending proposals.
Scientists have uncovered a “blind spot” in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at ri…
The storm exposes the U. S. commonwealth's climate risks, economic fragility, and federal strain.
"We're dirt farmers. Our primary job is to tend the dirt. That's the basis of everything. "
After years of delays, the place to rest, recharge, and escape the elements is a major — but incomplete — win for the people delivering your burrito bowls.
Louisiana LNG is expected to generate more greenhouse gases than any other natural gas terminal in the country.
The tax break is one of the state’s costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the nation.
A lawsuit claims ExxonMobil and others underreported debts by $194 million, calling it “a playbook” for how companies dump old wells and expenses on states.
There's an old argument that protecting the environment hurts the economy. It's wrong for a lot of reasons.
Nearly a million acres in the state have burned this year. One expert calls it ‘a new kind of wildfire era. ’
Jem Bendell predicted that society would collapse because of climate change. Then he tried to get on with his life.
An earlier spring affects when migratory birds arrive, leaves emerge, and fruit ripens — among plants and animals that determine ecosystem health.
In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, there are painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.
A group of climate-focused candidates is hoping to steer the Salt River Project toward clean energy. Turning Point USA stands in their way.
The money is being redirected to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, a government-owned utility with a checkered past.
Little bits of greenery are popping up in cities, making summers more bearable for urbanites.
Renewables brought income to ranchers and tax revenue to counties long buffeted by boom-and-bust oil cycles. Policy changes in Washington and unease on the gro…
A new label promises single-use cups are recyclable. But that doesn't mean they actually get recycled.
A sweeping plan to build 21 gigawatts of solar plus batteries on 136, 000 acres could be a lifeline for Central Valley farmers facing devastating water shortag…
Staffers from DOGE are revamping rules in ways to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry.
Words considered "woke" are vanishing from National Science Foundation proposals. We tracked the changes.
Drought, a legacy of overpumping, and now military strikes are driving the country’s fragile water and food systems to the brink.
Scientists in Brazil and Peru may have found a way to beat mosquitoes at their own game. The U. S. may soon need to do the same.
Documents indicate that the tech company may be planning a massive natural gas powered data center project in Nebraska — but it could hinge on one piece of leg…
The rules would hold pollution magnets like warehouses, ports and railyards accountable for the trucks and ships they attract.
As efforts to study and conserve fungi expand, researchers say a "shroom boom" is underway.
The growing allure — and danger — of glacier tourism.
Data centers will swallow 14 percent of Archbald, evict a trailer park, and border many residential properties. Who's to blame is a matter of fierce debate.
Home insurance is buckling under climate risk and construction trends. Find out how your state fares.
Investor-owned utilities have been slow to ditch oil and gas. The city of Ann Arbor plans to boost access to renewables through a new dual-service model.
A new study says global warming is accelerating. Some aren't ready to agree.
In just the last year, the Trump administration has derailed an international carbon tax, boosted forecasts for oil and gas, and sought to silence an island na…
When scientists recently analyzed hundreds of studies of ecosystems, they were surprised to see a marked slowing in the rate of species turnover.
A survey of mining records found dozens of requests for copper, manganese, and nickel targeting land reform settlements in northern Brazil’s Carajás region in…
The repeal loosens standards for roughly 90 sterilization facilities that emit the toxic chemical in neighborhoods across the country.
Farmers from Iowa to India depend on fossil fuel-based fertilizers. Much of their supply is stuck in the Persian Gulf.
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein.
The next generation of geothermal energy is drawing on decades of talent and technical expertise developed in the oil and gas industries.
One year after the Trump administration threw the EPA into chaos, former employees continue to push back— and to dream of an agency reborn.
Misinformation, politics, and a complex design brought down the once-promising program, which sought to slash emissions from heating in the cold New England st…
Scientists have shown how actively managing forests to prevent wildfires can also boost the snowpack, a critical source of hydration in the American west.
Though tech companies are secretive about their water usage, Arizona’s 150-plus data centers and chip factories use a tiny fraction of the state’s supply.
The Bad River Band is fighting to stop Line 5 and protect its watershed. Meanwhile, local sheriffs are already tallying the cost of riot gear.
As climate change intensifies wildfires and other extreme weather events, demand for native seeds is surging.
Nuclear experts aren’t sure the company could manage to make small reactors both cost-effective and scalable.
Utah Republicans are calling for an energy "divorce" from blue states. A major utility just granted part of their wish.
Not far from the crowds of Venice, scientists are finding that sea lavender locks away carbon, builds ecosystems, and could help coastal cities weather a warmi…
As the climate changes, mountains and nordic facilities have begun relying more on energy and water-intensive machine-made snow.
In Asheville, North Carolina, a housing crisis is colliding with a poorly understood health threat.
Though the companies weren't granted exemptions, their requests illustrate the data center industry's desperate quest for energy.
More than a year later, not a dollar has been spent — and no one knows what happened to the money.
Around the world, the conditions that brew massive blazes are . .. syncing up?
Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.
U. S. ski techs reflect on competing at the first Olympics banning waxes with "forever chemicals. "
Your climate values are conflicting with your closest relationships. Here's some advice on how to cope.
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