For decades, the military treated climate change as a threat. Now it’s backing away from plans to protect people and bases ...

Arizona’s lax water laws let corporate farms pump unlimited groundwater to grow alfalfa for cattle overseas, even as local ...

Climate activists and a few states are taking a new approach to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for planet-warming greenhouse gasses: Fees to help pay for climate-related damage caused by ...

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On a quiet street near the marsh in Charleston, South Carolina’s Rosemont neighborhood, Luvenia Brown watches the weather reports more than she used to. She’s lost lawn mowers, bikes and outdoor ...

Concrete built much of the modern world. It paves highways, shelters millions and forms the foundations of countless buildings. But cement, the crucial powder that serves as the binder in concrete, ...

It began with a lobbyist’s pitch. Tennessee Rep. Rusty Grills says a lobbyist proposed a simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings. In late March, ...

Leaving the tight-knit community his family had called home for five generations along the Louisiana coast was one of the hardest things Chris Brunet has had to do. But three years ago, he felt he had ...

Acre by acre, the village of Kipnuk is falling into the river. The small Alaskan tribal village sits on permafrost, which is thawing fast as global temperatures rise. That’s left the banks of the ...

Rich Piar farms soybeans in Knox County, Ohio. “We try to be good stewards of the ground,” he said. The solar project he hopes will be built on his land, “from my research, is a decent thing. We have ...