Climate, clean energy, and the technology and policy reshaping the planet's future.

For months, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro promised a plan to blunt fast-rising energy costs in the state by pushing power-hungry AI data centers to pay their own way. Now his office has formally released details on how he intends to turn BYOE—“bring your own energy”—into more th

Years after wildfire scares, parents are left wondering if their children's chronic illnesses began with what was in the air before they were born.

Governor Spencer Cox says nuclear, geothermal, and solar power should help fuel the colossal Stratos Project.

Bo French has won the Republican nomination to help run a little-known but influential regulatory office in Texas that oversees the state’s oil and gas industry.  French, whose campaign was backed by far-right Texas oil tycoons, received 50.6 percent of the vote over incumbent Ji

There is a joke Mónica Godoy Molero likes to make with her family: if you swim in Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo after an oil spill, you’ll sprout a third eye.  It helps to have a twisted sense of humor when you live in a place exploited by oil companies for more than a century and i

Forecasters are calling for below-average activity this hurricane season, which begins Monday, June 1. The National Weather Service is predicting eight to 14 named storms, including three to six hurricanes and one to three major hurricanes of category 3, 4 or 5 strength, packing

Will chemical recycling revolutionize the fashion industry, or is it just “an excuse to keep producing plastic clothes”?

Extreme heat is one of the most dangerous climate change risks in the United Kingdom, according to a new government-backed report that warned the nation is “built for a climate that no longer exists.”  Right after it came out, the U.K. recorded its hottest day on record for the m

GOOCHLAND, Va.—Deborah Blackburn leaned on her cane in a line to enter the Central High Cultural and Educational Complex, angst-ridden over a giant transmission line proposal for reasons that are common refrains here: It’s all to benefit data centers in Northern Virginia, and it

California is trying to phase out fossil fuels, but it still needs gas. That makes for messy politics.

INDIANTOWN, Fla.—Carroll McAllister frets over the prospect of a hyperscale data center opening next to the grassy expanse where she grew up, in a shack her father built. Now 87, McAllister is a tiny but sturdy woman with a bob of blonde hair. She fondly recalls running wild on t

The federal government’s pause on new loans for anaerobic digesters, the controversial method of converting animal manure from large-scale feeding operations into biogas, will now extend through the end of the year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture explained the move in financi

By throwing a wrench in the state’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, advocates say Hawaiian Electric Co. can sidestep rules years in the making.

SEATTLE—Exceptionally skinny gray whales—enfeebled by starvation and mangled by blunt-force trauma—are washing up this spring along the coast of Washington state in numbers that alarm marine-mammal scientists. Twenty-three carcasses have been found so far this spring, many of the

The Trump administration likes to cast renewables as a socialist scam, but solar has soared in the competitive markets of the Lone Star State.

High gas prices are driving EV growth in other parts of the world — but American drivers are favoring hybrids.

Despite U.S. opposition, an overwhelming majority of nations agreed that failing to address climate change could be grounds to seek reparations.

A new paper says New Orleans must relocate inland. But that’s a lot harder when your economy revolves around seafood.

Democrats won big in last year’s election. This year, they’re aiming to win a majority on the commission.

As the oil crisis deepens across the globe, households and industries are using less fossil fuel — maybe permanently.

“It seems like they have largely adopted the positions of the chemical industry.”

Mark Carney is counting on Alberta’s oil sands to help him survive Trump’s trade agenda.

Researchers are just beginning to understand the human cost of America's retreat from international aid.

A sweeping national climate assessment argues that exclusion from decision-making has amplified Indigenous vulnerability to floods, storms, and erosion.

The Great Salt Lake is drying up. What happens when a data center as large as a city sits next to it?

Mass transit systems are seeing more riders as fuel prices rise, but experts say most Americans still have little choice but to drive.

The move could save the oil company hundreds of millions in Texas, even as state lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers.

Like lobster rolls, wild blueberries are iconic in Maine. But heat and drought have set the plants back to a point where many small farmers are struggling against reduced yields and increased costs for mulch and irrigation.