Carbon Emissions
Royal Dutch Shell said early Monday that it was ceasing offshore oil and gas exploration in Arctic waters after a test well yielded unsatisfactory amounts of oil and gas.
Environment
Giant Sequoias growing in California's Sierra Nevada are among the largest and oldest living things on earth, but scientists climbing high up into their green canopies say they...
Environment
It has been the year of the whale on Long Island Sound, where fishermen and other boaters have reveled in the return of the marine mammals after a long hiatus.
New York
It has been the year of the whale on Long Island Sound, where fishermen and other boaters have reveled in the return of the marine mammals after a long hiatus.
Environment
The death toll is now five from a pair of the most destructive wildfires in recent years in California.
Environment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials refused for weeks to share water-quality data with their state counterparts following a blowout of toxic wastewater from a...
Regulation
With wildfires continuing to plague drought-stricken California and federal funding to fight them dried up like parched El Dorado County farmland, some critics say the real...
Endangered Species
The 4-week-old giant panda cub at the Smithsonian's National Zoo now weighs nearly 2 pounds and is starting to look like a panda — specifically, his dad.
ENVIRONMENT
When it comes to garbage, the city of Seattle has launched a waste war. Nine full-time solid waste inspectors have been hired. Additionally, contracted waste haulers have been...
Energy
Skyrocketing costs for energy and electricity will have a “disparate impact” on the poor and low income Blacks and Hispanics.