Stories by Elizabeth Harball

The girls improved their own energy-saving behaviors by 49 percent, too

Coal provides the economic engine for a small town in eastern Montana

Mining coal in the Powder River Basin is no longer a sure bet

Scalia's death has complicated states' political calculus on whether to keep up Clean Power Plan discussions

West Virginia is leading the fight against Obama's Clean Power Plan, but would use markets to comply if forced

Legal challenges expected from states as plan to combat climate change becomes official

Pope calls for “serious attention”

The new rule includes panoply of changes to help states trade emissions

High hopes and high tensions surround the test project in Arizona

The Democratic Republic of the Congo needs aggressive protections against foreign investors who want to turn the second-largest forest stock on Earth into farmland

Deadly downpours flooded Texas and Oklahoma and may have been exacerbated by global warming

Climate change will challenge tall trees like California's redwoods

Tree plantations draw the wrath of farmers and ranchers who see the practice driving up land prices

The nation's biggest forest thinning project moves ahead in Arizona

A new analysis finds widespread forest loss in Russia and Canada

Scientists had assumed that trees would use increasing concentrations of CO2 to grow more but research shows that is not the case

Growth of wood-fueled power generation in Europe spurs protests from Southern environmentalists in the U.S.

Scientists find a link between increasing greenhouse gas emissions and deadly hot spells but drought and downpours proved more complicated

Environmental group links as much as 65 percent of illegal tree cutting to commercial farming

Climate change means more wildfires and wildfire smoke helps further heat the atmosphere

Hundreds of thousands of acres of forest are burning in Oregon and Washington, forcing evacuations

Developers deforesting Indonesia's wetlands are contributing to the country's rank as one of the world's top greenhouse gas emitters

Overuse of nitrogen is an even bigger source of climate change pollution

Fish save the world billions of dollars in damages by helping store carbon dioxide in the oceans