With this delightfully warm weather, the earth is coming alive. Buds are swelling, maples are flowering, and the birds have ...

Trump — once again — will rein in the nation's law protecting waterways. At stake are seasonal streams and ponds. The move is ...

How tribal leaders, commercial fisherman and a few small environmental groups won an uphill campaign against dams.

Across the street from the Flamingo Visitor Center at the foot of Florida's Everglades National Park, there was once a ...

The projects, which include oil pipelines, natural gas power plants and mining projects, were already under review. But the possibility of accelerated permitting raised concerns that without effective ...

A hearings officer for the city of Portland has approved Portland General Electric’s plan to upgrade transmission lines at ...

These boldly colored migratory birds spend the colder months in the southern United States and begin returning to Michigan in ...

Philadelphians said there’s still work to do to keep the city’s trees standing and ensure every resident has equal access to them during a hearing about the city’s implementation of the Philly Tree ...

Aquaculture wastewater, rich in organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus, poses a significant environmental threat when ...

It’s amazing, it’s amazing! I have no other word to describe it.” That’s how biologist Marcos Roberto de Brito defines the ...

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Microbes work in tandem with marsh plants to draw carbon dioxide from the air and break it down, storing the carbon in the soil. “People didn’t think about [wetlands] in the way we think today ...