Environment & Sustainability

Our reporter, Apoorva Mandavilli, goes inside a mosquito factory in Brazil, where scientists are producing millions of mosquitoes to fight deadly tropical diseases in a warming world.

The Ulster Farmer’s Union says confidence in Andrew Muir and his department is “severely damaged”.

With forecasters issuing a warning for very high temperatures, this summer is on track to be one of the hottest yet.

The continent’s railways and roads “were engineered for a climate that no longer exists,” one expert said.

The Trump administration pushed out thousands of veteran U.S. Forest Service staff. An ‘extraordinary’ fire season is testing those who are left.

Front group lauds purported benefits of data centers without disclosing its backer. By Lisa Sorg HENDERSON, N.C.—On a recent summer evening Mitzi Parrott, who lives in Vance County, saw a television commercial on the evening news that gave her pause.…

Recovery projects for 100 critically endangered and extinct-in-the-wild species across the world are set to receive new funding under a conservation initiative announced Aug. 4. Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund, both U.S.-based environmental organizations, created the Phoenix Species Project…

Firefighters in Phoenix race to save lives in a city that’s only getting hotter.

A new law gives companies a simple way to raise the bar for lawsuits. A phosphate mining company lobbied for it. By Lisa Spear “What happens when you get exposure to radioactivity?” Andy Mele remembers the man asking earnestly as…

Households near the reserve burn plastic waste, releasing pollutants that travel by air and settle on the leaves the monkeys eat. By Andrés Muedano For thousands of years, Mexican howler monkeys have inhabited the lush rainforest canopy of what is…