Environment

Facing pressure from the California government to facilitate the production of more green energy, the Trump Administration approved the construction of a 3,000-acre solar project on Jan. 16.  The Bureau ...

Environmental groups trying to halt hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in California have banded together to sue the Trump ...

A coastal city in California is moving to ban coal exports, shutting down a port that handles about ...

The state of Florida has reached a deal with a private real estate firm to buy a large ...

As the debate over climate change heats up, politicians and some scientists are issuing warnings with increasing urgency. ...

BERLIN—Germany is shutting down one of its seven remaining nuclear power plants as part of a planned phase-out ...

Some plants emit a high frequency distress sound when they are placed under environmental stress.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced in a statement on Nov. 4, that the United States will be ...

A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a gunman who opened fire about a mile from the border ...

BEIJING/SHANGHAI—China dumped a total of 200.7 million cubic meters of waste into its coastal waters in 2018, a 27 ...

The Trump Administration announced in September their decision to withdraw California’s waiver from the 2013 Clean Air Act. ...

Leaders of France, Germany, and Australia criticized teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg after she accused them on the ...

With 91 percent of the 8.8 million tons of plastic added to oceans each year originating in rivers, ...

An expedition revealed rare close footage of a deep-sea shark that typically weighs more than a ton on ...

A Finnish study done by researchers at the University of Turku found that mankind only accounts for a ...

The US Wants to Start Dumping Rat Poison on These Islands. It Will Help the Birds.

Federal officials raised the alert level Tuesday for the world’s largest active volcano, Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, which last ...

The number of stranded dolphins across the Gulf Coast has jumped, tripling the number of deaths so far ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon—Residents of a town in Cameroon are complaining about damage to their homes caused by a nearby ...

A staggering number of small earthquakes that rocked Yellowstone National Park between 2017 and 2018 had brought fears ...

A Texas businessman and deep-sea explorer descended 35,853 feet into the depths of the Pacific Ocean to shatter ...

PARIS, France—The dolphins’ bodies were horribly mutilated, the fins cut off. But what shocked French marine researchers wasn’t ...

WASHINGTON—A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is ...

Viral video footage shows the moment an orangutan seemingly attempts to fight off an excavator in Indonesia. According ...

Amidst the plastic waste that is harming the marine ecosystem and its inhabitants, one brewery in Florida is ...

Scientists drilled down into a lake that exists beneath almost 1,100 meters (approximately 3,600 feet) of ice on ...

Six wolves died due to the actions of people in and around Yellowstone National Park, according to a ...