Conservation groups including the NRDC, Center for Biological Diversity, Humane Society International and International Fund for Animal Welfare petitioned to list giraffes as endangered to help protect their vulnerable populations.

A group of researchers at the University of Georgia have used federal data to develop a model to predict where climate change refugees might end up across America.

In the era of the new presidential administration when protecting the environment has become less than a priority, grassroots organizations across the country are leading environmental activism and finding creative ways to counter destructive policies.

Last year, Kentucky officials accused Fairmont Brine Processing, a wastewater treatment facility in West Virginia, of arranging to dump radioactive waste in an Appalachian landfill in Kentucky.

Scientists developed a device that can capture moisture in the air to store as clean drinking water, using only sunlight.

When the Oklahoma attorney general was appointed by President Donald Trump to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, his primary goal was to follow through with Trump’s campaign promises and reduce the size of the EPA as well as halt Barack Obama’s climate change policies.

The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum, dedicated to the history of the coal industry, is switching to solar power to save money.

More than 85 percent of the corals in Kiritimati Island reef, the largest coral atoll in the world, died in the last two years due to climate change.

South Africa is home to the largest population of nearly 30,000 rhinos around the world, and has been facing a poaching crisis for several years.

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications has found that before the Industrial Evolution began facilitating the burning of fossil fuels, Earth’s climate had remained relatively stable for millions of years.

A new omnibus environment legislation has been passed in Minnesota, which would appropriate more than $830 million and bring significant changes to the Environmental Quality Board.

Understanding the positive regional, statewide and national benefits of investing in greener practices and energy efficiency is important if lawmaker wants to strike a balance between environmental protection and economic development.

Environmental leaders from the NRDC are fighting to preserve a marine monument established by Obama in September of 2016, that includes the protection of unique marine ecosystems in the Atlantic Ocean.

German scientists at the German Aerospace Center have developed the “Synlight solar” – an artificial sun that uses 149 mega-lamps to simulate sunrays.

Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, penned a letter briefing Americans on the agency’s decision to protect U.S. automakers against strict environmental laws.

The World Meteorological Organization’s annual climate report indicates that climate change and global warming are both man-made crises.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) approved Pennsylvania’s Wildlife Action Plan this week, which has been reviewed and revised by federal and state agencies, conservation organizations and universities.