Environment & Health
Study Says Clean Energy Rollbacks Will Cost Economy $1.1 Trillion by 2035
By Marianne Lavelle
As Wildfire Smoke Increases Bad-Air Days, Are Government Agencies Doing Enough?
By Leigh Giangreco
In Majority-Black Camp Hill, a Young Mayor Fights for Water
By Lee Hedgepeth
‘We’ve Treated it as a Global Waste Dump’: Costa Rica’s President Calls for Action on the Ocean
By Teresa Tomassoni
Department of Justice Gives Trump Go-Ahead to Eliminate National Monuments
By Wyatt Myskow
Virginia Vulnerable to Trump’s Proposed Cuts in Emergency Management and Disaster Relief
By Charles Paullin
Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales
By Katie Surma
Why a Fan Can’t Always Cool You Down, and Other Unexpected Challenges in Heat Waves
By Kiley Price
As an Eastern Iowa Quarry Seeks to Quadruple Its Water Use, Residents Urge the State to Intervene
By Anika Jane Beamer
Across the Country, Locals Rally to Protect National Monuments Threatened by the Trump Administration
By Wyatt Myskow
US District Court Ruling Keeps Fight Against Mining of Site Sacred to Western Apache Alive
By Wyatt Myskow
The World’s Oceans Are a ‘Ticking Time Bomb,’ Reaching Dangerous Acidification Levels Earlier Than Scientists Thought
By Georgina Gustin
UN Ocean Conference Opens With a Call to Defend the Deep Sea
By Teresa Tomassoni
The Race to Engineer Coral Reef Solutions in the U.S. Virgin Islands
By Teresa Tomassoni
A Neighborhood Burned, a Home Saved, a Future in Question
Story and photos by Nina Dietz
Funding Shortfalls Hamper North Carolina’s Program to Buy Out Hog Farms in or Near Floodplains
By Lisa Sorg