The U.S. Great Lakes have surged to unprecedented levels, causing tens of millions of dollars in damage to coastal roads, marinas, and household property.
The agency leading the coronavirus response nationwide is facing a staffing crunch and has closed its training facilities to avoid spreading the virus, officials say.
Glaciologists in the US have developed a "slip law" to account for the motion of ice that rests on the soft, deformable ground underneath unusually fast-moving parts of ice sheets.
Former EPA administrator and NRDC president Gina McCarthy on why Trump’s rollback of emissions regulations is especially dangerous during the pandemic.
Coronavirus, like climate change, is partly a problem of our economic structure. Although both appear to be "environmental" or "natural" problems, they are socially driven.
A state agency is requiring homes on cliffs to be built farther away from the water because of sea-level rise. That's igniting legal challenges from property owners, who say they're on the front line of aggressive adaptation policies.
Pushed out of their village by a drought and lack of food, a group of Nepalis are fighting to amplify the voices of those forced to relocate by the planet’s warming.
PITTSBURGH—Kids who have asthma and live near industrial polluters may face higher risk from novel coronavirus and its resulting disease COVID-19 in the coming months.
Despite centuries of rampant overfishing and pollution, marine life in the world's oceans could be fully restored in as little as 30 years with aggressive conservation policies, according to a new scientific review published in the journal Nature.
As the novel coronavirus ravages the world — and economic signs point to a severe recession on the way — environmental emergencies remain real and capable of creating further catastrophe within just a few short years.
