Becky Rom, of the organization Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, told the Duluth News Tribune that the area is a paradise of woods and water and a world-class outdoor destination, serving as an ...

Earth’s water cycle, as we have known it, is spinning out of balance as a result of climate change and human activities, threatening long-term water security.Last week, the World Meteorological ...

According to a preliminary report from the UN Environment Programme, damage has been done to nuclear power plants; oil pipelines, storage, and refining facilities; and industrial sites that stored ...

Last May, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered the U.S. Air Force to make a plan to clean up groundwater from massive contamination by two dangerous chemicals—PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” and ...

After regulators closed the 40-year-old institution earlier this month, many firms in the environmental sector worried they might go under too, until the federal government announced that it would ...

A prophetic poem written by a man from Derna, Libya, just days before catastrophe struck his country last week, has gone viral.His poem warned of a failed state—and rain as a “a sign of goodness, a ...

Professionals who work to provide safe drinking water and who handle waste and stormwater are aging out, and, as Michigan Public reports, finding young people to replace them is a challenge.A report ...

Permafrost is a permanently frozen layer on or under Earth’s surface consisting of soil, gravel, and sand bound together by ice, found mainly in Arctic regions of Greenland, the U.S., China, Russia, ...

The coral reefs are already stressed from pollution and overfishing, and portions were bleached about eight years ago when water temperature rose under El Niño conditions, according to the Washington ...

Over fears of an explosion, officials burned off a carcinogenic chemical, vinyl chloride, which was being transported in the tank cars, creating huge smoke clouds that loomed over the Palestine area.

According to the International Monetary Fund, support for oil, coal, and natural gas rose to over seven percent of the world’s gross domestic product—almost twice the amount spent on education. The ...

The National Weather Service said that during the snowmelt runoff season, Lake Powell, the second largest reservoir on the river, is forecast to get more than 170 percent of the annual average amount ...