An environmental group says a Court of Appeal decision upholding a ruling preventing the mining of millions of tonnes of ironsands off the coast of Taranaki is a victory for the ocean.
Glaciologists in the US have developed a "slip law" to account for the motion of ice that rests on the soft, deformable ground underneath unusually fast-moving parts of ice sheets.
A state agency is requiring homes on cliffs to be built farther away from the water because of sea-level rise. That's igniting legal challenges from property owners, who say they're on the front line of aggressive adaptation policies.
A network of wells, tanks, pipelines, pump houses and roads cut into the Allegheny National Forest in Elk County to harvest $350 million worth of oil. What worries state and federal environmental regulators isn't the project's growth but its death.
Despite centuries of rampant overfishing and pollution, marine life in the world's oceans could be fully restored in as little as 30 years with aggressive conservation policies, according to a new scientific review published in the journal Nature.
As the novel coronavirus ravages the world — and economic signs point to a severe recession on the way — environmental emergencies remain real and capable of creating further catastrophe within just a few short years.
Documents disclosed in a treaty infringement case offer a rare glimpse into the payments BC Hydro offered to First Nations as it sought support for the dam.
Toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS are now confirmed or suspected in ground and surface water at 678 military installations, including 16 in Michigan, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Working Group.
A $77 million environmental cleanup along the Ashley River is ongoing, preparing a 133-acre site for the largest development ever on the Charleston peninsula.
Nearly half a century since they were first formally surveyed in 1973, the kelp forests beyond the southernmost tip of South America remain relatively unchanged.
A lawsuit filed by the estate of a Flint woman who died of Legionnaires’ disease during the city’s water crisis can go forward against former Gov. Rick Snyder and others, a federal judge has ruled.
Multiple studies show that Arctic warming is altering temperate and equatorial weather. Now, new research finds that Antarctic ice melt could be a major tropical change agent too.
The 2019 Chesapeake Bay-wide winter dredge survey suggests the population of blue crabs increased nearly 60 percent, from 372 million in 2018 to 594 million in 2019, according to information from the Chesapeake Bay Program's newly released report.
While San Franciscans are maintaining an appropriate 6-foot separation and avoiding crowds at the beach, our local sea stars aren't following any of the guidance.
