Environment

It’s the Keystone XL Pipeline all over again.

Will the industry listen—or continue to gamble with shale gas and oil?

Researchers continue to find new information about how widespread plastic pollution has become, but also how we can help stem the tide.

Biodiversity refers to the richness and variety within and between plant and animal species, and within ecosystems. This diversity is declining faster than at any time in human history.

The rhetorical battle over turning away from investments in companies contributing to climate change, it seems, has been won.

"Please make 2022 the year in which the world chooses to stop extinction and commits the resources to do so," says a letter ahead of an international summit next week. "Life on Earth depends on it."

Because of carbon capture and storage, a technology widely touted by the oil and gas industry and some political leaders as a key solution for climate change, the field could still be producing 1.5 million barrels of oil annually by the year 2100.

The dangers on planet Earth in the age of Donald Trump.

Groundbreaking research from Columbia University reveals that land beneath America’s largest cities is sinking—mostly due to groundwater extraction—posing a hidden but growing threat to infrastructure, flood safety, and climate resilience.

Coral reefs, often referred to as “the rainforests of the seas,” are currently facing a variety of threats from ocean warming and...