Environment

In a pivotal hearing, the Supreme Court deliberates on the EPA's cross-state smog control strategy, with far-reaching implications for public health and air quality nationwide."

If we consider what the future could be, picking up the mantle against climate change may not seem so bad after all.

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."

Get your hikes and other recreation in while you can. A new study finds warming temperatures could mean big changes in how we use our public lands.

"It is literally insane that the global fossil fuel phase-out is being actively sabotaged by antiquated treaties and corporate greed," said one critic.

"We've never experienced this kind of rain before."

Or otherwise, millions will be imperiled by increasing droughts, floods, fires and poverty.

 “At best, this plan will deliver peak carbon emissions in 2019, but with its plan for unlimited air travel growth, non-carbon aviation emissions will rise, and will persist all the way to 2050,” Dr. Alex Chapman from the New Economics Foundation said, as The Independent reported."

There is some good news on the emissions front, and new renewable energy installations are key to it.

“The gap between what we need to do and what is actually being done is widening by the minute."