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Years of negotiations between Colorado and six other Colorado River Basin states have failed to produce a new agreement on water allocations.

Tens of thousands of people in northwest Indiana are entering a second week without power after a deadly storm toppled trees and power lines.

When I learned asbestos was only truly restricted in 2024 when new uses were banned under the reformed TSCA, I was speechless, yet grateful there is now a law keeping it out of new building materials.

Scottish Water is using new technology to disinfect and recycle laboratory plastics previously sent to landfill or incineration.

At the center of protein maxxing, whey products require energy-intensive processing and emissions-intensive milk and cheese production, with climate consequences if unchecked.

In “Chocolates Melting Away”, Breech Asher Harani explores how cacao growers in the Philippines are developing new techniques to protect their crops from increasingly turbulent weather.

A huge new study charted 1,708 recycling scenarios across 32 regions and found a way to turn a looming waste crisis into a circular-economy windfall.

Publishers acceded to Florida's requests, watering down information on climate change’s impact; now the state has turned to updating its science standards.

With Britain about to record its hottest summer yet, Sam Squier's nearly 200-acre beef farm in south east England stands out as a lush, green oasis surrounded by scorched brown fields.

Hotter summers are wreaking havoc across transportation infrastructure. One solution: Paint everything white.

More than 40 million depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. Yet plastic pollution in the lake water isn’t regulated, and manufacturers are moving to dramatically increase the amount of plastics produced.

A team of researchers at Michigan State University have found that locusts can distinguish PFAS by smell, a discovery that could potentially be used to develop improved PFAS monitoring equipment.

Common outdoor air pollutants may be associated with structural changes in brain regions that are particularly vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new observational study.

Researchers at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory measured the air in and around New York City apartment buildings. What they found surprised them.

More governors are shifting their stances or taking more steps to squeeze data centers, as the midterm elections near and public opinion sours on the energy-hungry behemoths.

Millions of dollars in infrastructure improvements are helping one particularly hard-hit Hampton, New Hampshire, neighborhood cope with the effects of climate change.

As summer heat intensifies in Japan, farmers are adapting by working through the night and before dawn.

Hundreds of commercial flights will be told to change their paths over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean during the next two winters to show how minor altitude adjustments can reduce aviation’s climate impact.

The additional shade reduces evaporation and stress on the plants, all while generating clean electricity.

Slashing food-related emissions needs varied strategies for different ages and countries, two new studies find.