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.

One New Jersey teenager has taken the Spotted Lanternfly problem into her own hands, or feet, rather. The 13-year-old burgeoning field scientist is fighting off the beautifully vibrant yet dangerous bug, currently raising alarms in New Jersey and New York, and she says to go directly for the head. Milan Zhu, about to enter eighth grade at Rafael de J….

New Jersey’s top environmental officer says the state is not ready for the worsening effects of climate change and rising seas. Testifying Thursday to a joint state Senate-Assembly panel on coastal issues, Shawn LaTourette, the commissioner of Environmental Protection, said New Jersey is not where it needs to be in the face of a warming planet and rising seas....

Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index shows the “fingerprints” of climate change — showing how its impacts, like lingering overnight heat, can cause heat waves. LX News climate storyteller Chase Cain explains.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation to issue a drought watch for 21 counties following dry conditions due to the lack of sufficient rain. The counties under drought watch are Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Genessee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Onondaga, Orleans, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Suffolk, Tompkins, Wyoming, and Yates. “Recent rains across the state were not enough to address...

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.

Hundreds of protesters marched on New Jersey’s Capitol on Thursday, urging Gov. Phil Murphy to deny permits to any future project that involves the burning of fossil fuels. Environmentalists and advocates of environmental justice listed a litany of proposed projects around the state that they want the governor to reject, including power plants and transport facilities for liquefied natural...

The sleek four-wheeled carts look familiar enough, but not even UPS knows precisely how to describe what could be the delivery giant’s latest way to get packages to your door.

New Jersey environmental protection officials said Thursday they hope to have a law that guards communities from overbearing pollution in full effect by the end of this year.

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.

Biden officials said the new funding will allow them to retrofit about 450,000 homes and slash monthly energy bills for families.

There are rapidly rising concerns over what Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine will mean for European economies.