It’s worth stepping back from the geopolitical competition to assess what the energy transition has accomplished.

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UCSC engineer Javier Gonzalez-Rocha is using drones and sensors to bring advanced air quality monitoring to underserved ...

The “polluter pays” principle is a cornerstone of environmental regulation. It raises billions of dollars each year and has ...

At the farthest edge of the Sun’s influence, the Voyager probes have stumbled into something that sounds almost mythic: a sheath of gas heated to tens of thousands of degrees, a kind of invisible ...

In a lot of ways, we’ll look back on 2025 as a critical moment, both for the environment and humanity. This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here. If ...

1 Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Duke University, Beaufort, NC, United States 2 Plastic Pollution Working Group, ...

A new analysis reveals that, by 2020, ocean acidification levels had pushed beyond safe planetary boundaries, with the most severe changes occurring in the upper 650 feet of the water column. This ...

The pandemics of obesity and climate change are connected by the food system. Beef and ultra-processed food (UPF) production in the United States food supply chain simultaneously drive globally ...

From winter wildfires in Los Angeles to the unchecked growth of data centers, here are the big climate stories we covered in 2025. If we’re being honest, 2025 did not start out great. For basically ...

If we’re being honest, 2025 did not start out great. For basically the whole month of January, a series of wildfires raged across Los Angeles, killing hundreds (more on that number below). On the ...