environment

Federal regulators will review the use of a chemical found in tires after a petition from Native American tribes in California and Washington states.

In a remote, dry patch of California farm country, a battle is raging over carrots. Or rather, over the groundwater where they’re growing northwest of Los Angeles.

Governments, organizations and businesses have set ambitious goals to combat climate change. But it is far from clear that those goals can be met without forcing people to do — or not do — certain things. And that is causing some consternation, even among some people who acknowledge the need to slow the warming of the planet. This week, New…

Hundreds of protestors rallied in Lower Manhattan today to draw attention to climate change and the business practices that make it worse. Erica Byfield reports.

The gloomy, rainy weather did not deter demonstrators Monday as hundreds marched in Lower Manhattan as they protested the impact of fossil fuels on the environment. In the end, more than 100 people were arrested for blocking the doors to the Federal Reserve. Almost as soon as the protesters locked arms in front of the New York Federal Reserve, the…

The heat is about to be turned up on fossil fuels, the United States and President Joe Biden.

Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh completed the trek to raise awareness of the need for clean rivers.

Federal research linking “forever chemicals” to testicular cancer confirms what U.S. military personnel long suspected. But as they seek testing for PFAS exposure, many wonder what to do with the results. There’s no medical treatment yet.

Some paper and bamboo straws contain so-called “forever chemicals” that could make them a less-than-ideal alternative to plastic, researchers have found.

Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

Florida’s coral reefs are getting hit the hardest by marine heatwaves right now, but conditions are ripe for a global coral bleaching event, NOAA says.

The Biden administration is rejecting a plea from environmentalists to toughen regulation of large livestock farms that release manure and other pollutants into waterways.

A Montana judge ruled Monday that citizens have a constitutional right to a clean and healthy environment.

Officials in Maui are warning residents that it remains too early to return to some parts of the island where firefighters have extinguished flames.

Now that July’s sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth’s hottest month on record by a wide margin.

Hammerhead flatworms — an invasive pest that looks like a cross between a hammerhead shark and a leech — have been spotted in the Washington, D.C., area and across the United States.

A trail camera caught a rare ocelot sighting in Arizona, where the endangered big cat has only been spotted a handful of times over the last decade.

The price tag for cleaning up waste from the once top-secret Manhattan Project and subsequent Cold War-era nuclear research at Los Alamos National Laboratory has more than doubled in the last seven years.

About half of the beaches nationwide tested potentially unsafe last year due to fecal contamination levels with at least one day exceeding the Environment Protective Agency’s “Beach Action Value,” a preventative tool to measure bacteria, according to a report by Environment America.

Many American cities have been excavating water mains, revealing lead pipes and leaving them there.