The Environment

The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule protects the nation’s forests from logging and other industry activities

The unicorn of the sea’s spiral tooth has long been a scientific enigma

The same people affected by extreme weather are also likely to worry that they will face a future disaster, according to a new poll

Companies are making big bets on technology to solve lingering challenges in the clean-energy rollout. Here are four of the most ambitious projects

Here are four reasons solar energy has seen a meteoric rise in recent years

For decades, an influential theory blamed the Rapanui for their own downfall—a story made famous by Jared Diamond’s book Collapse. New evidence tells a different tale

El Niño years typically mean warmer ocean temperatures and less wind shear in some parts of the Pacific—and that means more potential for hurricanes

China plans to send container ships along Russia’s northern coast, reviving environmental concerns about the fragile polar region

The U.S. is spending millions to try to control feral hogs, but are those efforts in vain?

Hawaii rarely sees direct hurricane hits—if Lala strengthens, it will be just the third recorded hurricane to make landfall there

This extreme rain was deadly, with at least eight people killed and many others stranded

This state, which has seen more than 200 twisters this year, could beat Texas’s all-time record of 244 tornadoes in 12 months