Solar and wind energy grew quickly enough in 2023 to push renewables up to 30% of global electricity supply and begin pushing fossil fuels off the power grid, the Ember climate consultancy concludes ...

By May, spring semesters are coming to an end, and teachers and students are looking forward to summer. For many that means ...

For centuries, ships have sailed past North Carolina’s picturesque Cape Lookout Lighthouse. And in colonial times, they often stopped in Portsmouth Village. Today, the lighthouse and village are part ...

Farmers who can’t sleep, worrying they’ll lose everything amid increasing drought. Youth struggling with depression over a future that feels hopeless. Indigenous people grief-stricken over devastated ...

Dan Conant, the company’s founder, grew up in West Virginia. He says he and many of his peers felt they had to move away to find good jobs. Now he’s back, working to grow the solar industry in the ...

Wildfire fighting is becoming a year-round effort in Canada, with blazes smouldering through the winter, often underground, waiting to surge to fiery new life in the spring. In late February, more ...

An astonishing 33 nations or territories set or tied their hottest April readings, including seven all-time highs for any ...

The Adirondacks region of New York is famous for its brook trout fishing. But as the climate warms, this cold-water fish is in trouble. Stephen Jane is a postdoctoral fellow at Notre Dame University.

By shading streets and buildings, trees help keep those surfaces from getting so warm. They also help cool the air around them by taking water out of the ground and releasing it through their leaves ...

When a river reaches the ocean it becomes an estuary, a place where freshwater mixes with saltwater. Castelletto: “You’ll have wetland habitats, marshes, peatlands, swamps, your traditional swamp ...