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A new report finds Amazon has reduced plastic packaging the most in countries with stringent regulations.

Installing solar arrays on commercial and public buildings could bring renewable energy to two-thirds of the nation's disadvantaged neighborhoods.

As the iconic scientist and activist celebrates her 90th birthday, her message for younger generations is one of hope — and not fearing the next adventure.

Nearly a quarter of the nation's grid now runs on renewables, bringing the country closer to its climate goals.

Documents show how federal paperwork delayed the state’s recovery from Hurricane Florence and left low-income renters in the lurch.

Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped.

“I don’t think money is going to solve it. But I also feel like we do have a responsibility to ensure that we are taking care of the people who are working for all of us.”

Delivery trucks, school buses, and other short-haul vehicles will electrify much faster than big rigs, easing air pollution in urban neighborhoods.

Three Pacific nations signed treaties with the U.S. Then Congress changed the rules.

Texas has become an early hot spot for geothermal energy exploration as scores of former oil industry workers and executives are taking their knowledge to a new energy source.

Human-caused climate change is having varied and unpredictable effects on maple harvests in Wisconsin, Iowa, and elsewhere, experts say.

Federal incentives for clean energy are struggling to overcome old-school planning.

Warmer temperatures are driving outbreaks of dengue worldwide, with millions of cases already reported in 2024.

Aerial monitoring finds they emit methane at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the EPA.

In "H Is for Hope," Kolbert explores the contradictions of a global problem, from A to Z.

Museums are reckoning with their own carbon footprints as they work to safeguard their collections from heat and storms.

A toxic grass that threatens a quarter of U.S. cows is spreading. Can it be stopped?

Native leaders say equating "Indigenous peoples" and "local communities" threatens hard-won treaty rights.

New research shows that climate change is already fueling heatflation, with worse to come.

A community-based approach to restoration combined with an ingenious device can bring back reefs traumatized by dynamite fishing.