The EU is poised to ease restrictions on crops developed using novel genetic techniques. While supporters say the technology could help farmers adapt to climate change, critics argue its effects remain poorly understood.
Pairing engineered stormwater infrastructure with green spaces can reduce flooding in cities. But wetter storms are pushing these systems to the brink, experts say.
Urban planners have been asking the wrong question. It's not how dense a city is — it's how close. The sweet spot for shorter commutes and lower emissions, for many cities, forms a ring.
A new Stanford University study finds that annual prescribed burning could substantially reduce smoke pollution during California’s worst wildfire years.
For decades, we've catalogued what we're losing to climate change. A sweeping new study offers something harder to find — evidence that one of the planet's most vital coastal ecosystems is actually winning.
A 20-year record reveals an estuary tipping toward a saltier, more acidic state. These conditions threaten its hammerhead shark nursery and the aquifer that supplies Miami’s drinking water.
The Trump administration’s top water official heads to Capitol Hill as the Interior Department readies politically wrenching decisions for the drought-shriveled Colorado River.
The arid Barind region was transformed by aquifer wells but now the water system is collapsing under the pressure of the climate crisis and decades of extraction.
In the nation’s fastest-warming state with a multi-billion-dollar fishing industry and storm-threatened coastal communities, scientists say the federal government’s decommission of a deepwater sensor system is ill-timed and wrong-headed.
At the Museum of Unnatural Disasters, members of Congress, disaster survivors, and activists are bringing their worries about preparedness to the seat of power.
