As demand for electric vehicles ramps up, environmental stumbling blocks have emerged.

The health risks from tiny airborne particulate matter may soon face stricter federal regulation. But improving air quality remains a complex challenge.

A massive new plastics plant will soon start operating in Pennsylvania, even as support grows for international limits on plastic production.

Global shipping is moving invasive species around the world. Can world governments agree on necessary preventative measures?

A rise in container-ship accidents adds to the growing marine plastic pollution problem and poses risks to ocean health, wildlife and mariners.

Experts say the new administration can jumpstart climate protections by taking on rising methane emissions, but it won’t be easy or quick.

A recent string of massive landslides in Alaska and around the world bears the fingerprint of climate change.

A summer of extremes leaves sobering questions about the state of Earth’s largest store of ice, capable of inundating coastlines worldwide as it melts.

The Trump administration wants to gut the National Environmental Policy Act, a move that would silence community criticism of destructive projects and give more power to industry.

Emerging efforts by cities and the federal government show that progress is possible, but experts say systemic changes are still needed.