Climate change did not take center stage during this week’s presidential election; it did not even seem to be in the wings or in the theater. Instead, the U.S. elected a candidate who has a history of ...

"Every state legislator can now look to Washington and say, ‘This is a winning issue,’” Governor Jay Inslee told Grist.

“We have more liquid gold than any country in the world,” Trump said during his victory speech, referring to domestic oil and gas potential. The CEO of the American Petroleum Institute issued a ...

New research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon and water.

Election Day in Lake Charles, Louisiana began with heavy rain and tornado warnings. Belts of precipitation traveling up from ...

In a special Election Day edition of State of Emergency, Zoya Teirstein reports from rainy Buncombe County, North Carolina.

Republican David Valadao has held his blue district by fighting for thirsty farms. With control of Congress on the line, his luck may run out.

A newly discovered bacterium could help humans deal with climate change — if scientists can figure out how to crack open its DNA.

Nemonte Nenquimo was just 6 years old when she heard the hum of a plane overhead bringing white people to her village in the Amazon. Nenquimo is Indigenous Waorami, and she has spent the last ...

Tucked away in the most extreme nooks and crannies of the Earth are biodiverse galaxies of microorganisms — some that might help scour the atmosphere of the carbon dioxide mankind has pumped ...

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