Environment

Called "the lungs of the Earth", the Amazon rainforest and its lush trees make roughly 20% of the oxygen on Earth. Yet, right...

The Waorani people of Ecuador won a historic lawsuit to save their homes – and the planet – from destruction.

PG&E's new infrastructure safety initiative is said to be the largest effort to lessen the risk of wildfire in the U.S.

“It is clear that without swift action, we can, unfortunately, expect to set new records like these every year.”

A bill that is gaining bipartisan momentum in the House would protect the science that protects the public.

Jasilyn Charger is a water protector from Cheyenne River. She’s been camping at Sacred Stone resistance camp to fight the construction of the nearly $4 billion Dakota Access pipeline for nearly 10 months.

“Education, the implementation of polar bear-proof methods of waste storage, law enforcement and the provision of adequate resources at the community level are required to mitigate this potentially increasing problem.”

A mission to be completed by The Aspinall Foundation, an organization that's committed to returning rare and endangered animals back to their natural habitats, will return the 13 African elephants, including 3 calves, by plane to their "ancestral homelands."

“People aren’t able to cool off; it's a lot harder to get relief.”

The government said the conversion will happen on lands that are designated as forest.