Atmospheric rivers can cause catastrophic flooding and landslides but are crucial for water supply. In an era of increasing weather whiplash between flood and drought, can we learn to embrace the rains?

Unwitting whale advocates and rightwing thinktanks create the impression that offshore wind energy projects endanger cetaceans.

The development of big data is crucial to enforcing a new treaty for the high seas.

In Oregon, researchers hope a surprising aroma will lure stray salmon back to their home hatcheries.

New research using real-world data casts doubt on the energy efficiency of diesel alternatives that come from phytoplankton.

Governments need to represent us, not fossil-fuel profiteers. We need plans to phase out fossil fuel production and emissions.

More than 336,400 acres of public land are now off limits for mining and oil drilling for 20 years.

In the Canary Islands, endangered angelsharks and European tourists are attracted to the same habitat which, for once, isn’t bad for the wildlife.

Claims that MVP is needed for energy security or demand — or that it is nearly built and has no legal hurdles ahead — are contradicted by data.

The idea should be nixed before it ever becomes a reality, say activists and researchers.

As Malaysian timber giant Samling’s SLAPP suit against SAVE Rivers is adjourned for a fourth time, communities continue their fight against the logging company.

The “green shift” isn’t enough, says mayor of Longyearbyen, which is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth.

Investigation finds energy giant’s efforts to offset its huge emissions rely on schemes with little impact.

Viewed by the Chumash people as their ancestral home, the Native American tribe is behind the first Indigenous-led initiative to protect the ocean and repair its damaged ecosystem.

How one nature photographer’s effort to identify the insects in his photos morphed into ambitious nationwide documentation project.