#environment

Environmental advocates are pushing back against proposed Trump administration changes that would loosen federal coal ash monitoring and enforcement requirements.

Researchers say Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms produce a rotating mix of toxins across three seasonal phases, including compounds that routine monitoring may miss.

A newly approved Utah data center project has become a flashpoint in the debate over AI infrastructure, power demand, water stress, and local environmental impact.

Scientists detected unexpectedly high levels of airborne methylsiloxanes across cities, villages and forests, suggesting a poorly understood silicone pollutant may be far more pervasive than assumed.

University of Missouri researchers say a genetically modified algae strain can bind to microplastics in water, forming removable clumps while also helping clean wastewater.

A large meta-analysis of 609 solar installations worldwide finds that photovoltaic plants do more than generate electricity: they also measurably alter wind, heat, reflectivity, and soil moisture at the surface.

Following Ted Turner’s death at 87, accounts of the media founder’s daily drivers offer a smaller but revealing window into how closely he aligned personal habits with his environmental beliefs.

The sky’s color is more than a scenic backdrop. New reporting highlights how atmospheric physics, aerosols and pollution can turn deep blue skies milky white, making visible what is suspended in the air around us.

Debates over synthetic turf are intensifying across the United States as schools, parks, and communities weigh convenience and durability against plastic waste, heat, and ecological costs.

An interview with investigative journalist Mariah Blake revisits how PFAS contamination spread through the environment and became one of the most far-reaching chemical pollution stories in modern industry.

A new preprint argues that large data centers may be warming surrounding land for miles, adding a fresh environmental concern to the AI infrastructure boom.

New national datasets from University of Queensland researchers map ecosystem disturbance across Australia and highlight areas still relatively free of human pressure.

Australia’s Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station marks 50 years of tracking what is often described as the world’s cleanest air, underscoring how long-term atmospheric records support climate science.

New research published in Science warns that the Great Salt Lake is approaching a tipping point that could trigger irreversible ecological collapse with consequences reaching across the American West.

Datacenter construction has become a defining political issue in a North Carolina primary, pitting economic development promises against community concerns about water use, noise, and environmental impact.

The EPA's endangerment finding is the legal backbone of US climate regulation. Eliminating it would reshape environmental policy for decades.