Environment & Health

University of Maryland Researchers Are Playing a Major Role in the Future of Climate-Friendly Air Conditioning

Thanks to consistent funding from the Department of Energy, the Center for Environmental Energy Engineering has been improving the global landscape of energy conversion.

By Hannah Marszalek

In the First Community Meeting Since a Fatal Home Explosion, Residents Grill Alabama Regulators, Politicians Over Coal Mining Destruction

By Lee Hedgepeth

Nonprofit Law Center Asks EPA to Take Over Water Permitting in N.C.

By Lisa Sorg

Surging Methane Emissions Could Be a Sign of a Major Climate Shift

By Bob Berwyn

In Final Rock Springs Resource Management Plan, BLM Sticks With Conservation Priorities, Renewable Energy Development

By Jake Bolster

When a Glacier Melts, What Does It Leave Behind?

By Kiley Price

EPA Thought Industry-Funded Scientists Could Support Its Conclusion That a Long-Regulated Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

Pacific Islands Climate Risk Growing as Sea Level Rise Accelerates

By Bob Berwyn

Water Issues Confronting Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail Trickle Down Into the Rest of California

By Bing Lin

New Lake Okeechobee Plan Aims for More Water for the Everglades, Less Toxic Algae

By Amy Green

As Global Hunger Levels Remain Stubbornly High, Advocates Call for More Money to Change the Way the World Produces Food

By Georgina Gustin

‘It’s Just No Place for an Oil Pipeline’: A Wisconsin Tribe Continues Its Fight to Remove a 71-Year-Old Line From a Pristine Place

By Phil McKenna

Houston’s Plastic Waste, Waiting More Than a Year for ‘Advanced’ Recycling, Piles up at a Business Failed Three Times by Fire Marshal

By James Bruggers

Coal Baron a No-Show in Alabama Courtroom as Abandoned Plant Continues to Pollute Neighborhoods

By Dennis Pillion

New Federal Report Details More of 2023’s Extreme Climate Conditions

By Bob Berwyn

Apache Group is Carrying a Petition to the Supreme Court to Stop a Mine on Land Sacred to the Tribe

By Noel Lyn Smith

This Country Voted to Keep Oil in the Ground. Will It Happen?

By Katie Surma

Some of Arizona’s Most Valuable Water Could Soon Hit the Market

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue

After $615 Million and 16 Months of Tunneling, Alexandria, Virginia, Is Close to Fixing Its Sewage Overflow Problem

By Sarah Vogelsong