Summer temperatures are already soaring in some parts of the world. The UK and Europe experienced a record-breaking heatwave in May. As extreme weather events become more common with climate change, ...

Pollution from the Pittsburgh airport has found its way into a nearby stream. Scientists are looking into how PFAS forever chemicals got there and what happens next. The U.S. Environmental Protection ...

“Sustainability has always been a central tenet of the restaurant,” said Kate Lasky, co-owner of Apteka. “But in a way where we really try to take every decision we make seriously and ask, ‘What are ...

A new study shows rising temperatures around the world are associated with a higher risk of kidney disorders.

For decades, the airport used PFAS-containing firefighting foam. Now, the stream that captures the airport’s runoff has the "forever chemicals." ...

This story was first published September 12, 2025. Americans discard millions of tons of food every year, not only wasting the resources it took to produce and transport that food but also ...

The Pacific Crest Trail, from British Columbia to California — or the Appalachian Trail on the East Coast — for hikers, these are names that elicit thoughts of epic scenery and adventure. The North ...

Hannah Hohman and Koa Reitz stood on an old bridge on a sunny afternoon, looking down at the confluence of two streams. Hohman glanced back and forth between the iced ...

This story is the fourth in a series examining the aftermath of the Feb. 3, 2023, Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, funded in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. It ...

A new report by Concerned Health Professionals of NY and Physicians for Social Responsibility concludes that fracking is a public health crisis. That’s not a surprise. It’s the 9th edition of the ...

No one knows exactly when the roof of Control Room # 2 at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works started to leak. But leak it did, probably for “years,” in the words of one investigator hired by the ...

A study by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection found the liquid runoff from Pennsylvania landfills that take solid oil and gas waste poses no “significant” threat to the public ...