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The historic high seas treaty is not yet in effect — but countries drew closer to implementing it.

The heat bearing down on central Alaska "could feel like 110" in a state where the sun can shine all day.

With science-based management and real-time data, Utah’s brine shrimp fishery balances the economy and ecology.

Hazardous chemical accidents happen in the U.S. about every other day. Who will investigate them now?

Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer, and others terrorized the Pacific Northwest. "Murderland" asks what role polluters played.

Norway’s crusade to eliminate gasoline powered cars was years in the making. Can that achievement be replicated?

The state Legislature finally passed a proposal to fund backup power for critical facilities like nursing homes and fire stations.

GOP leaders claim that repealing power plant pollution rules and tax breaks for renewables will fuel an energy boom. Experts say they’re doing just the opposite.

The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

Port Heiden is facing an energy crisis. A $300,000 grant from the EPA would have helped the traditional Alutiiq community swap costly, polluting diesel for cheaper, clean power.

A guide to the candidates who want to set future energy policy.

"What we are seeing is compelling evidence that the climate crisis is not just an environmental emergency, it is potentially a neurological one."

What climate lessons can we learn from a pair of cozy solarpunk novellas?

Volunteer cartographers on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia are turning local knowledge into life-saving maps in the face of rising seas and stronger storms.

When the Trump administration moved to shut mine safety offices and shutter a program that protects miners from black lung disease, miners demanded it reverse course. It quietly did.

Facilities that make wood pellets have a track record of catching on fire. So why are there plans to build several near Yosemite's tinderbox forests?

The president hasn't directly targeted the nascent industry, but his clean energy rollbacks could hurt it.

New research suggests the currents that help shape the climate may be weakening more slowly than thought.

Not so long ago, developers of the massive server farms talked about powering them with wind and solar. Now, with the coming of power-hungry AI platforms, they’re bypassing the grid, building their own gas-fired power plants on-site.

The research highlights the groundwater issues complicating the Colorado River's already strained water supply.