The Quiet, Intentional Fires of Northern California

While lawmakers iron out the details, advocates hope this approach could serve as a model for addressing histories of environmental hazards often concentrated in Black and low-income neighborhoods.

While a bunch of sharks cruising the Maine coast may seem ominous, it’s actually a sign of a conservation success story.

And if your tap water is undrinkable, you have no “constitutional right to truthful information” about it.

Several new studies have uncovered this long overlooked aspect of coral physiology that could be the key to the animals’ fate in a changing climate.

Heat records are being shattered thanks to a boost from the natural climate pattern—and burning fossil fuels, of course.

Scientists have found a new form of pollution, one where plastic and pieces of coral become irreversibly intertwined.

Nor’easters are usually a winter phenomenon. But this week’s storm is arriving earlier than usual, and it could take on some characteristics more typical of tropical systems.

Public disagreement about whether political violence is rising and who is responsible for it stems not from ideology alone but from competing definitions about what should be counted.

“There’s no reason we can’t think that, at some point in the future, we can have volcano forecasts that are like weather forecasts.”

The company announced it has stopped using secret agreements with county officials and acknowledged that community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums across the country.

While the strengthening El Niño helped boost temperatures, climate change is the main culprit for making August so hot.

Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,  data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash.