In Seattle, community assemblies are gathering frontline community members to set their own policies around extreme weather.

The Forest Service says salvage logging is needed to avoid fires. Ecologists and hikers worry that will prioritize profit over ecosystems.

Critics warn that the Trump administration’s plan to transfer public lands could enrich wealthy developers while eliminating access for everyone else.

Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.

Last month, France’s national railway operator released a glimpse of the designs for its upcoming fifth-generation high-speed ...

So if it’s perfectly safe to consume recycled toilet water, why aren’t Americans living in parched western states drinking ...

For 12 years, scientists thought they knew how much extreme heat human bodies could cope with. New research shows how wrong ...

The Agriculture Department is opening more than 112 million acres of federal forests to logging in a misguided bid to prevent fires and boost timber production.

A mysterious whale that has long puzzled scientists may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing beneath ...

Installations are wrapping up this month for the turnkey program providing solar, heat pumps, and batteries to households that couldn’t otherwise afford them.

New Yorkers can now get fined for not separating their food scraps. Some critics say that's not the right approach.

The change may speed up flood recovery, but it will leave communities — and taxpayers — facing the same problems over and ...