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The recipe sounds simple: Improve drainage. Use plants, tanks and barriers to slow water. But it takes money and cooperation.

The city hopes two new transmission lines will power 100% of city operations with clean and renewable energy

The EPA rule targets an 85% reduction in hydrofluorocarbons, a class of potent greenhouse gases, by 2036.

Sinking seaweed could sequester a lot of carbon, but researchers are still grappling with basic questions about reliability, scalability and risks.

The well-known three-arrows symbol doesn’t necessarily mean that a product is actually recyclable. A new bill would limit the products allowed to feature the mark.

Direct air capture plants, which draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, have the potential to slow down climate change. The largest plant yet that just came online in Iceland is an important test run for the new technology.

A leaked IPCC report debates the value of personal behavioral change in fighting climate change versus reducing "demand-side" emissions.

More proof that we can fight global warming . . . but it’s going to require work.

Though separated by nearly 1,000 miles, these two extreme weather incidents are amplified by the same phenomenon: human-caused climate change.

The Trump administration refused to take the chemical off the market, ignoring the recommendation of Environmental Protection Agency scientists.

But the key measure, the Clean Electricity Payment Program, will face tough tests in the real world – if it passes at all.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials on Monday declared the first-ever water shortage from a river that serves 40 million people in the West, triggering cuts to some Arizona farmers next year amid a gripping drought.

If you have ever considered your zombie apocalypse survival plan, you've almost certainly concluded that the best place to be to survive the end-of-the-world event is somewhere isolated, and preferably surrounded by water. As it turns out, science…

America is All In lays out how many emissions each sector of the economy needs to cut, and how we can achieve those goals.

China had been the subject of a pressure campaign by the United States and other G-7 nations to halt its overseas support of coal power plants.

A new manufacturing technique could drastically reduce the footprint of one of our dirtiest materials.

A new study by the Department of Energy says that solar farms alone could produce enough electricity to power all of the homes in the U.S.

“This announcement is a massive victory for activists and for the planet,” Divest Harvard, a student- and alumni-led group, wrote.

Academic researchers say the fossil fuel industry engages in "discourses of delay" to divert attention away from the crisis.

Wildfires, heat, storms, and other disasters are dealing simultaneous blows to the US. Communities will have to prepare for more disaster pile-ups as climate change drives more extreme weather.

A new plant in France aims to extract silver from old solar panels to make recycling them worth the trouble.

Reducing the use of scarce metals — and recycling them — will be key to the world’s transition to electric vehicles.

The Montreal Protocol was designed to heal the ozone layer. It may have also fended off several degrees of warming—and a collapse of forests and croplands.

A new analysis forecasts the number of U.S. outdoor sector workdays and annual earnings that could be lost if the world fails to slow global warming.

If we fail to drastically reduce carbon emissions, we will need to rely on unproven carbon dioxide removal technologies to extract carbon from the atmosphere