Both approval and ranked choice voting put fire under the feet of elected officials to do the right thing for the environment — or risk being voted out.

New solutions are being tested to combat health risks from heat waves, particularly in urban “heat islands.”

Don’t miss these environmental news stories about innovative laws, rising renewables and a “climate king.”

“We’re training a workforce of solar warriors,” says the cofounder of Indigenized Energy Initiative.

We can’t — and shouldn’t — hide from the reality of multiple ecological and social crises, say the authors of a new book.

Saving endangered species sometimes means knowing where they used to live — before scientists started studying them. For that, we need historical ecologists.

An upcoming project would change the flow of the Mississippi River and its sediment to make up for land the coast is losing due to climate change and sea-level rise.

New research supports efforts to designate more land and water to save biodiversity and fight climate change — but we need to protect better, as well as more.

But there are steps we can take to bring nature to our communities and empower them to protect it.

An important new survey — the first nationwide test of new technology — also reveals critical conservation priorities.