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A surge in data centers built to power artificial intelligence is straining the electric grid and pushing consumer power bills higher, with utilities investing in infrastructure that may never be needed.

Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021.

Suriname says it can build an oil industry without harming the planet. Is it climate pragmatism — or wishful thinking?

Environmental justice activists have spoken out against coal and iron mining in South Africa, telling a recent human rights hearing that the industry violently undermines the country’s promised energy transition. They also pointed to the continued threats, displacement and killings…

Three Arctic seal species have moved closer to extinction, as rapid sea ice loss continues to erode their breeding and feeding grounds, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The update, released Oct. 10…

The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has asked the military to explain why cleanup of PFAS chemicals at bases nationwide has been pushed back.

A new study of one of Canada’s most urbanized rivers suggests it dumps the equivalent of about 18 cars worth of microplastics into Lake Ontario every year, a finding that shocked the lead author and underscored efforts to cut down…

Gov. Spencer Cox and a coalition of state, business, and conservation leaders have pledged to raise the Great Salt Lake by seven feet — reaching a “healthy” level of 4,198 feet — before the 2034 Winter Olympics.

MINDANAO, Philippines — A nickel mining project in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao is facing renewed calls for closure after a recent government inspection revealed that strip mining there has stripped bare about 200 hectares (494 acres) of forest…