The battle over climate change is boiling over on the home front
Municipalities want new buildings to go all electric, spurning gas-fired stoves and heating systems. The gas industry disagrees
Climate leaders go ‘all in’ to halve emissions by 2030
To complement the United States' return to the Paris climate agreement, elected officials joined the business and nonprofit community to launch the "America Is All In" coalition,...
In Iceland, Melting Glaciers Give Way to Plant Life
A recent study examines the changes in the foreland of a melting Icelandic glacier. With ice gone, new plant life is springing up and changing...
Israel places gag order on probe into oil spill that closed beaches and devastated wildlife
A suspected offshore oil tanker leak has shuttered Israel’s more than 100-mile coastline and caused an ecological disaster that could require years of cleanup.
Why Texas wasn’t prepared for Winter Storm Uri
A disaster management expert on how poor planning and communication failures deepened the crisis that left millions of Texans without power during the deep freeze.
LISTEN: A conversation about infertility with Shanna Swan
EHN senior editor Brian Bienkowski talks to Dr. Shanna H. Swan—one of the world’s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists—about her new book, Count Down: How...
Bad water sickens First Nations. But government doesn’t track the toll
Data to identify and fix problems don’t exist. The ‘black hole,’ say critics, lets feds off the hook. A special report.Bonus rebate aims to entice Maine small towns to make the switch to heat pumps
Efficiency Maine is offering extra funding to smaller municipalities to pay for heat pump installations.