Enviro.News

The heart of both hurricane and wildfire season is yet to come.

Water recycling in office buildings is seen as a promising sustainability effort, as well as a smart hedge against rising costs and future shortages.

Under a draft plan Democrats are circulating, the Treasury Department would tax a handful of the biggest emitters of planet-warming pollution to pay for climate change.

Hundreds of scientists and policy analysts left the government during the last administration. That’s a problem for President Biden’s climate agenda.

Fires accelerated by climate change, along with invasive plants and urban sprawl, threaten the saguaros, a keystone species of the Sonoran Desert and a celebrated symbol of the Southwest.

The Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposal on Tuesday to list the birds as a threatened species.

For the first time, both parties have acknowledged — by their actions, if not their words — that the United States is unprepared for global warming and will need huge amounts of cash to cope.

A pair of English researchers found that New Zealand is best poised to stay up and running as climate change continues to wreak global havoc. Other scientists found flaws in their model.

An electrified highway is theoretically the most efficient way to eliminate truck emissions. But the political obstacles are daunting.

The sprawling, 2,702-page bill includes historic investments in traditional projects as well as broadband expansion and funds for some climate projects.

Financing and security issues are clouding new power station projects.

The legislation contains what could be the largest investment in climate resilience in American history.

The big changes that can still save us.

Hundreds of scientists and policy experts left the government during the Trump administration. The jobs remain unfilled six months into President Biden’s term.

After a heat wave and two Southeast Asia-style rainstorms that flooded the capital’s streets, subways and Brian May’s cellar, it seems timely to ask if the city is prepared to deal with wild weather.

Police search the desert trying to track down the poachers selling Conophytums to collectors worldwide, threatening to wipe out rare plants in the wild.

Events in the genome of Welwitschia have given it the ability to survive in an unforgiving desert for thousands of years.

A team of Times journalists collaborated to explain visually the city’s complicated challenges involving Lake Michigan.

Ambitious high-rise projects in Sweden are a showcase for a reviving forest industry.