environment

The NTT IndyCar Series is addressing environmental issues on and off the track with renewable race fuel, innovative tires and more.

Congress on Wednesday approved a resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways.

Water containing a radioactive material has leaked for a second time from a nuclear plant near Minneapolis and the plant will be shut down, but there is no danger to the public.

A helicopter with a shooter will fly over a portion of the vast Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico next week, searching for feral cows to kill.

The Biden administration has 30 days to issue a final decision on whether to approve the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska.

Add Burning Man to the list of plaintiffs challenging one of the growing number of “green energy” projects in the works in Nevada.

Brazil´s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Amazon activist Marina Silva will be the country´s next minister of environment.

Breathing cleaner air is vital to your long-term health, so expect benefits if you live in one of these seven least polluted U.S. states, a new report says.

Now that he’s monarch, King Charles III — one of Britain’s most prominent environmental voices — will be have to be more careful with his words.

A five-year report says Australia’s environment continues to deteriorate due to climate change, resource extraction and other causes.

The New York Yankees were seen playing a game from the dugout during a game against the Oakland Athletics. Does throwing your chewed gum to the ground have an adverse impact on the environment?

Driving down a windy canyon road in northern Oregon rangeland, Jordan Maley and April Aamodt are on the lookout for Mormon crickets, giant insects that can ravage crops.

The Navy is taking more steps to protect the environment. It’s through a new plan called Climate Action 2030 and it sets the Navy on a path to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Several people have reported rare sightings of North Atlantic Right Whales this month along the New England coastline from Provincetown to Portsmouth. “It is pretty rare to see them that close to shore,” Heather Pettis of the New England Aquarium said. With its bristle-like baleen plates and distinctive callosities decorating its head to its massive size and characteristic tail flukes,…

Rob Greenfield waddled and, at times, wobbled his way through Beverly Hills Monday wearing bags of garbage on his body. The cumbersome suit of trash includes cups, bags, boxes, cartons and other discarded items that Greenfield has used this month.

The Biden administration has announced a wide-ranging enforcement strategy aimed at holding industrial polluters accountable for damage done to poor and minority communities. The strategy includes creation of an Office of Environmental Justice within the Justice Department. It also reinstates a dormant program that allowed fines paid by industry as part of a settlement go to community activities such as...

Earth Day 2022 is far from the first. But when was the first Earth Day celebrated? And who organized it? Learn Earth Day’s origins and how it’s evolved since.

New vehicles sold in the U.S. will have to travel an average of at least 40 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2026 under new rules unveiled by the government.

Finance, geopolitics and cybersecurity will all be crucial in determining the scope and success of any energy transition.

One of the early casualties of Russia’s territorial ambitions in Ukraine was the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, a massive energy project that cost $11 billion.