Climate & Environment

A new report says beverage companies like Coca-Cola must be “held accountable for the supply chain impacts of their plastics.”

Cities and states faced with mounting costs of climate change have sued Big Oil. Of course, these companies spared no expense trying to blocking these cases—but the Supreme Court let them continue.

It is increasingly common for companies to make public claims about the sustainability of their products and business operations—but it’s not always clear how they are actually impacting the environment.

On a Friday morning before Memorial Day weekend 2018, a tank holding waste from labs working with Ebola, anthrax, and other lethal pathogens became overpressurized, forcing the liquid out a vent pipe—and no one had noticed.

The curiosity of kids, borne out of simple observation, benefits us all this Earth Day—when we should all take stock of our relationship with this pale blue dot we live on.

Chubb stated that they will not underwrite oil and gas extraction projects in protected areas designated by state, provincial or national governments.

Before Trump's indictment took over the headlines, a study warned that "melting ice around Antarctica will cause a rapid slowdown of a major global deep ocean current by 2050 that could alter the world's climate for centuries."

The fires Spain is seeing, especially this early in the year, are once again proof of the climate emergency that humanity is living through.

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.