Environment

The effects will strain the pocketbooks of not only the property owners, but also the cities and counties who rely on those property taxes.

The new electric SUVs are scheduled for release in 2024 and can be used for off-road travel. The company says it plans to become the leading zero-emission SUV brand in the world.

Mount Rainier, which is an active volcano, put on a show Wednesday morning and officials confirmed that it was a cloud above the peak. 

"It was pretty ironic… to be plugged into a coal mine."

The 43-year-old actor said he’s tired of plastic bottles, bags and packaging ending up as pollution.

Swiss retailer Migros said its “coffee balls” are fully compostable, unlike the plastic and aluminum containers popularized by its rival Nestle under the brand Nespresso.

According to NOAA data, U.S. summers are growing warmer by 1.23°F every century.

Scientists identified the foot-biting bug at a water-line isopod.

The recent flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 1,130 people and left millions displaced. Now, satellite images show how an entire new lake has formed.

The foundation of elite mountain climber Nirmal Purja has announced it is bringing a team to Pakistan's K2 next year to clean up "rotting food and human waste" that is "frozen into the ice and leaching into the groundwater." 

A local geologist says the variety of colors was due to multiple lighting effects being in play, and it left a photographer saying it was one of the most magical things he's ever witnessed.

Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers.

Over 2,300 lakes and rivers across the contiguous U.S. are hosts to blue-green algae blooms.

'Forever chemicals' have been phased out by U.S. manufacturers, but they remain in the environment because they don't degrade over time.

"Most of the artifacts that melt out are extremely well-preserved. It's like they are frozen in time."

California is poised to set a 2035 deadline for all new cars, trucks and SUVs sold in the state to be powered by electricity or hydrogen, an ambitious step that will reshape the U.S. car market by speeding the transition to more climate-friendly vehicles.

A fleet of hydrogen-powered passenger trains is replacing diesel trains that previously operated on nonelectrified tracks in Germany. The trains use hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity, saving about 420,000 gallons of diesel fuel a year.

An outdoorsy eight-year-old found a fossilized shark tooth from a long-extinct species while he was on a family vacation in South Carolina earlier this month of August 2022.