Environment

If the U.S. military were a nation state, it would be the world’s 47th largest emitter of planet-warming greenhouse gases, a 2019 study found. Though the British universities of Lancaster...

Michael Packard has a whale of a tale to tell: He survived being swallowed by a humpback whale early Friday morning. Around 8 a.m., the 56-year-old lobster diver jumped from...

Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) has returned to the public eye after physical-education teacher Tanner Cross was suspended, then subsequently reinstated by court order, for taking issue with the district’s...

What do raincoats, pizza boxes, frozen vegetable packaging and nonstick frying pans have in common? They all contain perfluorinated alkylated substances (PFAS). Known as “forever chemicals” by experts, they could...

A regional labor judge has ordered Brazilian miner Vale SA (VALE3.SA) to pay 1 million reais ($197,240) in compensation to each of the families of 131 employees killed in the...

At the end of May, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office labeled three German NGOs “undesirable organizations.” It included the Berlin-based Center for Liberal Modernity (LibMod). “This is also aimed at the German...

The reservoir created by Hoover Dam, an engineering marvel that symbolized the American ascendance of the 20th Century, has sunk to its lowest level ever, underscoring the gravity of the...

TC Energy will coordinate with regulators, indigenous groups and other stakeholders “to meet its environmental and regulatory commitments and ensure a safe termination of and exit from the Project,” the...

It’s official: the Keystone XL is going away for good. The pipeline’s developer announced Wednesday that it’s terminating the project. For years, the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have gone...

Medan, Indonesia – Teacher Istu Prayogi spent the 1990s living in Indonesia’s congested capital of Jakarta, all the time battling a runny nose, headaches and shortness of breath. It turned...