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The Biden administration issued a new fee on climate-warming methane pollution, but the EPA regulation faces an uncertain future under President-elect Trump ...

President-elect Donald Trump said the New York Republican would help push deregulation and support American businesses. Environmental groups decried the nomination.

Trump's return to the White House raises questions about whether the country will continue working on global climate initiatives.

A new podcast from KALW, explores the history of wilderness and its future.

On a rare undeveloped point of the California coast, scientists are trying to repopulate shorelines with an endangered marine snail. This type of experimental conservation is becoming more necessary.

Despite Donald Trump's focus on fossil fuels, his return to the White House won't derail clean energy, analysts and activists say.

A prolonged drought, now in its second year, is devastating large swaths of Brazil's Amazon rainforest. Whole communities and the Amazon's largest city are struggling under the parched conditions.

A recent biodiversity meeting acknowledged the serious problem of deforestation while a new report on global environmental threats to trees offered a startling estimate.

We go to the borders between Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Afghanistan to see the dried up shores of what was once one of the largest lakes in the world, the Aral Sea. Mismanagement of the rivers that fed the sea because of demand for irrigation in the ...

Crews in Spain searched for bodies in stranded cars and sodden buildings as people tried to salvage what they could from homes following monstrous flash floods.