Carbon removal, a proposed solution to climate change, will require the injection of CO₂ underground—but under whose property?

The first time a president withheld funds for something approved by Congress, it led to the Impoundment Control Act. We’ll soon find out if that law has teeth.

The idea of awarding legal personhood to nature has received renewed attention in the contemporary environmental justice movement, but much contention remains.

The complicated, ever-changing, millennia-long relationship between insects and humans.

Even for those stuck at home during the pandemic, quarantine can pose dangers to health. But it's not all dire!

Rare earth elements are used in virtually all electronics, and mining them is a messy business.

People are understandably reluctant to make much use of sewer sludge. Can rebranding human waste as "biosolids" change the public's mind?

World hunger is not caused by our inability to produce enough food. The problem arises because of the economic inequality that distorts food distribution.

The cost of generating solar power has dropped so dramatically, it is now economically advantageous for tobacco farmers to replace tobacco with solar farms in many places.

From household plastic to industrial waste, anthropogenic activity has created compounds that poison ecosystems from water to air.