Environment

Smoke from wildfires in Canada and Minnesota is blanketing multiple northern states with smoke and ash, leaving millions of people exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution. 

Beachgoers are heading to Washington shorelines Wednesday to catch one of the final and most extreme low tides of summer.

Officials across New England are warning residents about the sea animals that can pose a serious threat to beachgoers.

A proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the Keystone Pipeline system’s operator to pay a $26.9 million civil penalty over a major oil spill in Kansas in December 2022.

The Trump administration is rolling back more protections under the Endangered Species Act with a new policy that will allow drilling, mining and logging on critical wildlife habitats.

A joint rescue effort near the US-Canada border has concluded as the beloved humpback whale "Pop Tart" was freed from a week-long saga trapped in fishing gear.

The fast-moving flames of a wildfire burning near the Colorado-Utah border claimed the lives of three firefighters and injured two others who had huddled inside emergency shelters to escape the blaze.

A coalition of states is suing California to block a sweeping recycling law, claiming its strict plastic waste regulations would force businesses nationwide to overhaul their products and operations.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has issued a local emergency declaration as firefighters battle a persistent cold storage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights that threatens a major food-spoiling biohazard crisis.

The United States hit a clean energy milestone last month as the amount of electricity generated through solar power topped what was made by coal for the first time ever. 

Hundreds of live eggs that were claimed to be winter jackets were intercepted and seized by border patrol agents this week. 

The Ocean Observatories Initiative, a network of over 900 sensors that track everything from climate change to extreme weather, is being dismantled by the Trump administration.

A National Park Service ranger died Thursday after she fell into a crevasse while patrolling on Mount McKinley.

President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act on Thursday to order federal support for coal-based plants and projects.

When lava shot into the air at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, the fountaining set a new record for the volcano which has been erupting for more than a year.

Erin Brockovich says she’s received thousands of reports on AI data centers, and the most common concern is transparency. “If data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?” she asks.