Environment

Life depends on it. Bill McKibben on the big changes we’ve already made in remarkably short order.

To recognize the significant role Indigenous peoples’ play in global conservation efforts, Mongabay rounds up some of this year’s most impactful stories.

Led by small- to medium-sized businesses, the projects will address crucial vulnerabilities in the country’s energy supply chain.

This action is an effort to "protect the Chaco Canyon and the greater connected landscape, and to ensure that public land management better reflects the sacred sites, stories, and cultural resources in the region."

“What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic; it affects the rest of the planet.”

Seven years ago yesterday, a blowout at an ultra-deepwater well operated by British oil giant BP in the Gulf of Mexico caused an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig and ultimately led to 134 million gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf.

As ocean temperatures climb, many species of fish – tuna among them – likely will shrink.

The project is a proposed 45-mile long natural gas transmission pipeline that would run from Eden, North Carolina to Roxboro, North Carolina, crossing through Person, Caswell, and Rockingham counties.

The Paris climate change agreement may be an ambitious and balanced plan and a historic turning point in the goal of reducing global warming, but according to French ambassador to the United Nation, Francois Delattre, - : “On espere, -- One hopes.”

EPA scientists are currently revising the study and taking comments from the public and the EPA's Science Advisory Board.