Environment

The rule NRC officials are preparing to eliminate has required the nuclear industry to keep exposure below legal limits, not just under them.

The agency tried to hand the repeal to Congress instead of going through its own rulemaking process.

The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.

Glaciers lost the equivalent of 560 million Olympic pools of ice in a single year, the fourth straight year of loss in every major glaciated region.

Speakers at the UN General Assembly's climate event pressed for faster action as the world overshoots the Paris Agreement's warming limit and a strong El Niño looms.

The causes of these extinctions range from diseases to invasive species to habitat loss, but most boil down to human behavior.

After wildfires scarred the Sacramento Mountains above Ruidoso, New Mexico, the community was under heightened threat of catastrophic flooding. Officials were aware but continued to promote the town to tourists who were oblivious to the danger.

While Syria is torn apart by the warring of U.S. imperialists and Islamic fundamentalists – leaving its children to die of starvation – another country plans to take advantage of the chaos by stealing resources from Syria’s southern region.

The agave-powered agroforestry and livestock management system is an example of how native desert plants, cultivated as part of an agroforestry system, can regenerate drylands and provide inexpensive animal feed, taking pressure off overgrazed rangelands.

Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list them under the Endangered Species Act—it's the "most powerful legal tool we have to protect imperiled species."