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A glaciologist and climate scientist is sounding the alarm at COP30 about the rapid shrinking of glaciers all over the world, ...

Researchers drilling under a college campus in the 1980s paved the way for an ambitious new project in the Twin Cities.

An Alaska Native corporation leased mineral rights inside a national park to Contango Ore Inc. The company’s plans are ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers have been at an impasse on clean energy legislation for years. The lone exception—a $25 million bill ...

In 2015, a mine tailings dam failed near the town of Bento Rodrigues, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The collapse ...

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A professor emeritus at MIT organized a letter with hundreds of signatories to President Trump urging him to exit the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. When his MIT colleagues ...

CHICAGO—In a large, air-conditioned room in East Garfield Park on Monday afternoon, Dhruv Trivedi waited quietly to hear if a bed would be available for him at a local shelter that night. It was a ...

Researchers warn that U.S. data centers could devour vast amounts of energy and water unless stronger guardrails shape the ...

An international investigation uncovers how criminal networks traffick parts of the totoaba, an endangered fish caught in ...