It was a year of growing challenges as well as comeback stories in the Great Lakes. While Detroit welcomed a large new park, ...

Candy wrappers. Cigarette butts. Chip bags. The litter you see on the side of the street doesn’t just present a public nuisance where it’s dropped. It’s one of the more serious emerging pollution ...

Colleen O’Neil, of the Mountain Watershed Association, fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfill's discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pa. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate ...

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Electric cars are often hailed as the superheroes of the automotive world—clean, green, and oh-so-silent. But while they do a ...

The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss ...

William Wordsworth, the poet who believed nature to be humanity's greatest teacher, once wrote that a single impulse from the ...

John MacFarlane believes residents have too long dealt with various forms of pollution in underserved neighborhoods, particularly in the east Fort Worth and Northside communities. These areas of the ...

At a Catholic health conference April 4-5 in Vacherie, La., Kimberly Terrell, a research scientist and director of community engagement at the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic in New Orleans, said her ...