The fires Spain is seeing, especially this early in the year, are once again proof of the climate emergency that humanity is living through.
Climate & Environment
Although the genre is recent, the bleakness of post-climate-change stories is nothing new in science fiction. Climate science fiction, or “cli-fi,” is having a renaissance.
Even though no congressional Republican voted for the biggest climate bill in the country’s history, red states were among the leaders in green power generation last year.
New guidelines for water quality to address the presence of "forever chemicals" have been proposed. What will it take to actually implement these standards and clean up our water?
It may be a crappy reality, but chemicals used in making toilet paper don't just get flushed. They then find their way to our food chain.
Rewilding landscapes on and around farms can create refuges to protect plants and pollinators in the face of a warming, drying climate.
Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels—and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment.
The slow release of information after the Ohio chemical train derailment has left many questions unanswered about the risks and longer-term impact. An environmental engineer helps fill in the information gaps.
Big Oil's trade associations opposed to climate policies spent $2 billion in the decade from 2008 to 2018 on advertising, lobbying and political contributions—and outspent climate-supporting groups 27 to 1.
The shift to a low-carbon economy is not just inevitable, it's already happening. Yet the Shell Board of Directors is persisting with a transition strategy that is fundamentally flawed.
People generally think of bats as creepy. But they can be a key in understanding how the destruction and alteration of nature can increase the likelihood of deadly pathogens spilling over from wild animals to humans.
By early winter Arctic Sea ice should be growing and spreading over a wider area. Yet the total area with Arctic sea ice has fallen dramatically in recent decades.