The practice of reporting on the environment starts with a working knowledge of a range of scientific disciplines. One of them is chemistry. To wit: since the 1960s, when Americans and visionary ...

Discover why Consumers Energy aims to postpone the Hardy Dam spillway delay in Michigan, impacting safety upgrades and ...

Discover the alarming trends in freshwater migratory fish species declines, with an 81 percent population drop since 1970.

A landmark agreement between a Seattle electric utility and local tribes will prioritize salmon recovery on the Skagit River, which also has three hydroelectric dams. ● A World Bank grant will support ...

Explore the implications of the Gulf desalination plants war risk and its potential effects on water supply in the Persian ...

More than 300 new species of freshwater fish were identified around the world by scientists last year, the third most in a year since 1758. ● Tampa Bay is facing one of its worst water shortages in ...

Energy Department, invoking emergency powers, orders the restart of oil drilling and an oil pipeline off the California coast. ● President Trump’s executive order targets water-pollution and wetlands ...

Reusing waste heat could help the Great Lakes reduce climate change emissions from heating and cooling buildings. The region has a huge opportunity for energy innovation that could reduce costs to ...

For more than two decades, the Colorado-born photographer Pete McBride has documented the overwhelming beauty and the gathering threats to the Colorado River. Now with the lowest snowpack on record in ...