Despite an overwhelmingly negative response earlier this year, the Bureau of Land Management is moving forward with most of its planned oil and gas lease sales in Beaverhead and Madison Counties.
Prompted by years of drought and mismanagement, a series of urgent multi-state meetings are currently underway to renegotiate the use of the Colorado River.
Namu was Ted Griffin's greatest prize, a live killer whale, put on display at Seattle's waterfront. The orca's journey from wild to captive would spark a worldwide sensation and change everything we knew about "blackfish."
With the launch of the new Parley Institute for Material Science, Parley is now focusing on finding alternatives for plastic altogether, by spearheading the search for new biological solutions.
Over the past decade nearly 90,000 tons of sewage sludge have been trucked up from South Florida and dumped into the St. Johns River watershed and conservationists say it's having a devastating effect.
University of Colorado researchers will present their findings of a study examining the health effects of groundwater contamination in the Security-Widefield and Fountain area.
Eleven of Georgia's 12 coal-powered plants are leaking chemicals into the groundwater, according to a study by a group of environmentalists that was released Thursday.
KING COUNTY, Wash. — When perchloroethylene (PERC) was introduced to the dry cleaning industry in the 1930s, it must have seemed like a miracle solvent.
A team of marine biologists have discovered nearly 200 species of Great Barrier Reef corals living in a deep-sea reef off the northeast coast of Australia — more than six times what researchers previously believed to be living there, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Big dams and reservoirs in Pakistan are slowly depleting its lush mangroves. The destruction is also affecting local fishermen, who have to look for alternative sources of income.
UNESCO issued a stern warning that Canada must take “major and timely" action on 17 recommendations, including an impact assessment of B.C.'s controversial megadam.
This year's farm bill, while mostly aimed at stabilizing the status quo, nevertheless offers changes and new initiatives that boost organic farming, crop diversity, and advanced conservation.
A community meeting in Calling Lake took a half-hour long turn to Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries and forestry around the region, as residents took the conversation to herbicides and clear-cut trees.
Environmental enforcement agents deep in the Amazon rainforest swooped down on an illegal mine in a dawn raid in early November, in a campaign to tamp down on such activities that environmental groups say have reached epidemic scale.
Residential well testing for PFAS is expanding in Ottawa County after 14 wells, including an elementary school well, tested positive for the toxic chemicals.
Victor Pytko was inspired by the PFAS contamination in his home town to create a documentary he hopes will serve as a primer for communities around the nation facing a similar environmental and health crisis.
