Environment & Sustainability

It’s a fringe movement so far, but hybrids have proven they can make good wine and may be better able to withstand climate change and disease.

Long dismissed as unintelligent, reptiles are emerging as cognitively and emotionally complex animals. A new study involving tortoises suggests that they also possess mood states.

Solar energy has been slow to get off the ground in Iowa. Utilities may finally be realizing its potential. By Anika Jane Beamer Two-thirds of Iowa’s electricity comes from wind turbines that sprout from fields like giant beanstalks.

Unlike Francis, Leo XIV has given few clues about where he stands on issues dividing the church (though he’s definitely a White Sox guy). Followers fill in the gaps.

SAN JOSÉ POAQUIL, Guatemala — The last rays of daylight filter through the trees as Andres “Tata” López, 56, the local Maya mayor, greets his neighbors coming to source water in the communal forest of San José Poaquil, a municipality…

Whiting residents worried after facility, which has had multiple problems, shut down temporarily after rain It was the biggest news story around the midwest as the Labor Day weekend approached earlier this month: the unexpected surging price of fuel at…

Some 200 events are planned across the US this Sunday to celebrate growth of solar power and energy efficiency As the Trump administration wages an all-out assault on climate protections and renewable energy, activists are gearing up for demonstrations this…

Once, the Trump administration merely downplayed the threat of global warming. Now it flatly denies the science.

Think Bill Gates is fixing the climate crisis? Not if you follow the money. While he funds green innovation and talks about cutting emissions, Gates also invests in dirty industries such as coal, oil, and private jets. In this episode,…

A new study reports that the Niassa Special Reserve, a 4-million-hectare (10-million-acre) wilderness in northern Mozambique, harbors the largest documented breeding population of Taita falcons. A survey that focused on 35 of the reserve’s towering granite inselbergs found 14 pairs…