Northern Lights: Large-Scale Solar Power Is Spreading Across the U.S.
Once largely confined to the sunny Southwest, utility-scale solar power plants are now being built everywhere from Minnesota to Alabama to Maine.
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The dark legacy of China’s drive for global resources
As China pursues a startling array of energy, mining, logging, agricultural, and infrastructure projects on virtually every continent, it is having an unprecedented environmental impact on the planet.
The Vanishing Nile: A Great River Faces a Multitude of Threats
The Nile River is under assault on two fronts – a massive dam under construction upstream in Ethiopia and rising sea levels leading to saltwater intrusion downstream.
How warming is profoundly changing a Great Northern wilderness
The abrupt change in direction of a Yukon river because of a rapidly melting glacier has attracted international attention.
Why does Trump want to pull plug on the cleanup of the Chesapeake?
The decades-long federal program to clean up Chesapeake Bay is showing signs of success and is supported by politicians of both parties.
Killing Energy Star: A popular program lands on the Trump hit list
It is widely regarded as a success — a voluntary program that has been a win-win for industry, consumers, and energy conservation.
Wild Weather and Climate Change: Scientists Are Unraveling the Links
One of the trickiest aspects of climate science is figuring out if a particular heat wave, flood, or drought was made more likely or severe by climate change.
In Napa Valley, Vineyards and Conservationists Battle for the Hills
The steady expansion of vineyards in California’s premier wine-growing region is moving uphill into oak and other woodlands and is adversely affecting fish and wildlife
Industry meltdown: Is the era of nuclear power coming to an end?
From Europe to Japan to the U.S., nuclear power is in retreat, as plants are being shuttered, governments move toward renewables, and key companies face financial troubles.
Vanishing Borneo: Saving one of the world’s last great places
Borneo’s magnificent rain forest is being decimated to make way for oil palm plantations.
