What happens when a wind farm comes to a coal town?
Coal jobs have been declining for generations. Now in the town of Keyser, West Virginia, there's a different energy source on the horizon.
Environment
Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf
Recycling "does not solve the solid waste problem," the head of a plastics trade group said in 1989, around the time the industry was launching its recycling campaign.
A small fish is at the center of a big fight in the Chesapeake Bay
Recreational fishermen and conservation groups worry overfishing for menhaden threatens the Chesapeake Bay. Industry says current data doesn't support shutting down the more than century-old fishery.
A lead candidate for president of Indonesia could increase deforestation and coal use
Voters in Indonesia will head to the polls Wednesday to cast ballots in a presidential election. One leading candidate is running on a platform that could increase deforestation and coal use.
Across the world, migrating animal populations are dwindling. Here's why
In a landmark UN study, researchers found nearly half of the world's threatened migratory species have declining populations. More than a fifth of the assessed animals face extinction.
Mardi Gras beads in New Orleans are creating an environmental concern
Despite a daily cleanup that leaves the post-parade landscape remarkably clean, uncaught beads dangle from tree limbs like Spanish moss and get ground into the mud under the feet of passers-by.
Quinault Indian Nation hits milestone in effort to move village uphill to safety
In a remote stretch of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, streets and sidewalks have appeared. The Quinault Indian Nation spent a decade trying to move its village of Taholah out of reach of rising seas.
What exporting American natural gas means for the economy and the climate
The U.S. is exporting more natural gas than ever before. Now, the Biden administration is pausing new projects. Here's what this means for the industry — and the climate.
Ho-Chunk master naturalist shares knowledge to breath life back into ancestral land
Members of the Ho-Chunk nation in Wisconsin are part of an effort to widen the circle of professionals and volunteers tending to the earth and passing along their knowledge to others.
Members of Wisconsin's Ho-Chunk Nation are training naturalists and nature lovers
Members of Wisconsin's Ho-Chunk Nation are training master naturalists, avid observers of the natural world who study plants and animals and pass along their knowledge.