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EPA's rollback of methane regulation is bad for the climate — and energy...
Often carbon dioxide is the number one culprit when talking about the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. But right alongside carbon dioxide is methane.In terms of the damage caused per ton of...
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In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Dorian's tropical winds blow up fear and...
Most of Hurricane Dorian passed just northeast of Puerto Rico on Wednesday, drenching Vieques, Culebra and parts of the main island in rain, and kicking up no small amount of wind in the...
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Preparing for hurricanes: 3 essential reads
The National Hurricane Center forecast on Aug. 29 that Hurricane Dorian could make landfall this weekend and bring large amounts of rain, strong winds and potential flooding from storm surge.Florida...
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Antarctic robot might lead way to life beyond Earth
Britney Schmidt, an astrobiologist, sat in a small yellow tent, carefully studying the handful of monitors set up before her. They displayed a live-stream of telemetry data, sonar readings and a video...
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Hurricane Dorian bashes Bahamas, inches toward Florida coast
Dorian, which over the weekend had been one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record, killed at least five people in the Abaco Islands in the northern Bahamas and inundated homes with...
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The Mississippi: Pushed to the brink
Reporting for this story was made possible by a fellowship with the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources.Transforming the Mississippi River into a highly efficient shipping corridor has...
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They wanted to save endangered cheetahs in Iran. Their work landed them in jail.
The Asiatic cheetah is a species on the brink of extinction, with fewer than 50 of them left. Now, geopolitical struggles risk killing the last surviving ones.Early last year, the Iranian government...
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Bahamas officials search for storm survivors as Dorian heads for Florida,...
Rescuers searched for survivors in the Bahamas on Wednesday after Hurricane Dorian, the most damaging storm to strike the island nation, left in its wake a flooded landscape dotted with pulverized...
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‘Everything is gone:’ Bahamians struggle in Dorian’s devastating wake
Stunned residents of the Bahamas surveyed the wreckage of their homes and officials struggled to assess the number killed by Hurricane Dorian, as the storm bore down on the South Carolina coast,...
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Build the wall across the San Pedro River? Many say no.
John Ladd’s family has run cattle on the same land for more than a century. Purple mountains rise in the distance above his ocotillo- and agave-studded ranch. We’re in his red truck, driving south...
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Don't ignore serious nonmilitary threats to US national security
Almost two decades after thousands died in the attacks of 9/11, there remain many active efforts underway to protect the United States from international terrorism.Since 9/11, American domestic and...
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How Dorian's destruction is hurting the Bahamas' most vulnerable
Around 2,500 people are feared missing in the Bahamas in the wake of devastating Hurricane Dorian, a number that may include people who fled to shelters around the Caribbean island chain, authorities...
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Eco-protesters fight Moscow’s attempt to ‘trash’ Russia’s north
Who would want what’s possibly Europe’s largest landfill in their own backyard?That question lies at the center of a protest against the construction of a massive garbage dump in northern Russia — an...
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Teenage activist Greta Thunberg takes protest to climate-change denier Trump
Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who has shot to global fame for inspiring worldwide student strikes to promote action against climate change, took her mission to US President Donald Trump’s doorstep...
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Bahamas relief efforts complicated by new storm headed for the islands
A storm system threatening the Bahamas with more heavy downpours and strong winds on Friday hampered the search for some 1,300 people missing in the wake of the worst hurricane in the nation's history...
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Why 2020 is a key year for climate action
If we want to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, scientists say we have to cut global carbon emissions nearly in half by 2030.That was the major finding of a headline-grabbing, UN...
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Caribbean fish love catastrophic hurricanes
Hurricanes like Dorian and Maria may be disastrous for humans and their property, but some fish have actually evolved to thrive in severe weather.Our team of scientists studied how extreme weather...
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Amazon fires push the forest closer to a dangerous tipping point
The fires raging in the Amazon have drawn attention to the alarming speed of deforestation in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, along with urgent warnings from scientists that a “tipping...
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Indonesia’s bold plan: Moving its capital to an island paradise
It’s a dilemma for megacities from Rio de Janeiro to Lagos to Manila.For decades, the magnetic pull of jobs has drawn people from the countryside into these boomtowns. And now, the traffic is hell,...
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Top US leadership is 'missing ingredient' in climate change action
World leaders will meet in New York next week for the United Nations Climate Summit, an event called by the Secretary-General to push for more and faster cuts to global greenhouse gas emissions....
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