Arborists are hoping to transform vacant land on Detroit’s eastside by planting giant sequoias, the world’s largest trees.

From a woman tackling waste by creating meals for the hungry from surplus food to a conservation group dedicated to rescuing and releasing sea turtles, to a community garden that lets low-income ...

Americans on the left and right are the most polarized they have been in the last 30 years. But nature, clean air and clean ...

Fifty-five years ago, 20 million Americans came together on the first Earth Day to say “no” to pollution: no more oil spills ...

The Trump administration is rolling back landmark environmental legislation that dates back to the Nixon era, including key ...

Understanding our climate: Global warming is a real phenomenon, and weather disasters are undeniably linked to it. As temperatures rise, heat waves are more often sweeping the globe — and parts of the ...

Earth Day, more than 50 elected officials have signed a letter urging lawmakers to make oil and gas companies bear the cost ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...

A spade stabbed into a tuft of vegetation. The weeds — nascent tumbleweeds — were scattered like green pompoms around an experimental field at Rio Grande Nature Center State Park. A small group of ...

Inference, training, and everyday operations all contribute to the considerable water and power consumption required to run ...

The study highlights the transformative potential of the Rights of Nature, which views nature as a rights-bearing entity, not merely an object of regulation and subjugation by extractive industries.

If you have the means, switching to solar energy or a heat pump is also “a huge gift to the planet, and, over time, a huge ...