Climate, clean energy, and the technology and policy reshaping the planet's future.

As the U.S. shuts its doors to most refugees, there’s little hope of a new system to help those forced from home by climate impacts.

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with botanist and author Beronda Montgomery. When plant biologist Beronda Montgomery sat down to write what became a personal memoir mixed with a botan

Record-high global temperatures aren’t driven only by well-known greenhouse gas culprits. These other emissions, unlike carbon dioxide, don’t have a direct warming effect on their own. Instead, they trigger reactions in the atmosphere that create more greenhouse gases or make the

A federal judge in South Carolina ruled this week that the Trump administration’s termination of environmental justice grants was “illegal.” The decision dealt a setback to efforts to dismantle a Biden-era program that funded projects addressing environmental and public health ch

China’s coal power output rose in early 2026, fueling concerns that last year’s drop in power-sector emissions may be temporary despite record growth in renewable energy. Data from China’s National Energy Administration suggests that 2025 marked a turning point in China’s shift a

Most Democrats and moderate Republicans agree that global warming is increasing the cost of living, a new survey shows.

Across the state, nuclear is getting a warm welcome in communities that typically oppose large-scale clean energy projects.

Spanning 110 quadrillion kilometers, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are critical allies of plants. They also transport an enormous amount of planet-warming carbon.

Daria Egereva and her colleague have been jailed for six months. A growing chorus of voices wants them released at a court hearing Thursday.

Solar provides more than twice the share of electricity it did five years ago.

FIFA says it's prepared for "climate-related risks" but doesn't appear to have a plan for wildfire smoke, which can be harmful to players and fans.

The common wisdom says it's a losing issue. Evidence suggests it actually helps Democrats.

Wildlife habitat, endangered animals, and recreation could all be at risk in the state’s biggest public land sale in modern history.

For citizen scientists, counting lichens and bugs and other tiny species is one way to monitor climate change in America's most biodiverse national park.

The Trump administration is dismantling two EPA rules, promising cheaper groceries for struggling families. Economists and former officials say it'll only make things pricier.

MAJURO, Marshall Islands—Perched on the bow of an aluminum landing craft, Anne Cohen gazed a few yards ahead of the vessel toward a yellow robot gliding across the emerald Majuro lagoon.  The unmanned surface vehicle, called Yellowfin, was quickly becoming one of the coral resear

Billions of live animals move through the legal and illegal wildlife trade, a massive industry a former CDC epidemiologist described as “pandemic roulette.” Traded animals move to places they never would have been otherwise, encountering species—and pathogens—they never would hav

The starry night sky has always anchored humanity’s sense of place in a vast universe. It’s a map guiding travelers, a calendar for migrations and harvests, a wellspring of stories. But a surge of commercial satellite launches into the upper fringes of Earth’s atmosphere threaten

“Pull! Pull!” shouts Scott Dexter, chanting the cadence for eight men gripping a rope. “Pull!”  With each pull, a 172-pound male loggerhead sea turtle is hoisted higher into the air. It takes several hoists to lift the turtle about 35 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, where Dexter a

Some day in the next 12 months—maybe in late August, maybe not until next spring— Lake Mead will drop below the critical threshold of 1,035 feet above sea level. That is the water-level elevation at which hydropower generating capacity at Hoover Dam, the largest in the Colorado R

The fight over an abandoned stretch of railway in Queens reflects a national debate over whether unused track should become parks, transit lines, or both.

Facing another round of cuts, NOAA-funded researchers worry about undermining public safety, the maritime economy, and health on the Great Lakes.

Industry-backed pesticide immunity laws are advancing nationwide, raising fears that farmers and families harmed by pesticides could lose their right to seek justice.

A bill to boost a wood-pellet industry plagued by pollution violations sailed through the Legislature.

“Nobody gets into farming for sane reasons, other than the sanity of knowing where your food comes from,” said one student at the Great Lakes Incubator Farm, which gives aspiring farmers a place to experiment without risk.

The president announced plans for two new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia, using the Defense Production Act.

A new report finds that for every dollar invested in parks, cities reap $3 in economic benefits. Here's how.