Researchers estimate that human-caused climate change made the conditions that led to Canada’s far-reaching wildfires this summer twice as likely. ● Hundreds of thousands of people in Puerto Rico are ...

Kitchen tables with meals made from locally grown foods. Reliable electricity to power lights, refrigerators, and air conditioners. Clean water flowing from showerheads and taps, sustaining the basic ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its re-assessment of cancer-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting the contaminant is more harmful than previously thought ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated in 2023 that the nation’s water utilities need to spend $625 billion on infrastructure over the next 20 years. Two-thirds of that total is for water ...

Michigan is giving a green light to a large new concentrated dairy farm that would add millions of gallons of animal waste to a region where water quality is already suffering from manure saturation.

The ready access to nature and winter sports is what prompted Elizabeth Scott and her family to up sticks from Portland, Oregon, to Houghton on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula in summer 2021. With 29% ...

Ohio is the Great Lakes region’s leader in new data center developments. These sites are projected to account for one-fourth of the state’s total electricity use by 2040. To address these needs, a new ...

My first glimpse of Lake Superior, in all its lore-and-song-inspiring glory, is a blurry one from the backseat of a taxi driving through Thunder Bay. Superior, or Gitchigumi, which means Great Lake in ...

Swimming past the California-Oregon border, a lost fish — one of thousands — finds its way home after an exile of over 100 years. As swarms of salmon migrate north to Oregon along the Klamath River, ...

NACHES, Wash. – The Yakima-Tieton Irrigation Canal, a small-scale engineering wonder cut into the face of soaring basalt cliffs in central Washington, is a precarious and endangered 12-mile channel ...

Not since DDT was introduced to U.S. agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and ...