Sustainability

Rigorous standards are required to scale hydrogen as a clean energy solution; otherwise, it will be a costly, polluting diversion

It’s not just nukes: the power at the heart of the Godzilla franchise is our awareness of the global consequences of human folly

A FEMA advisory council says a program that allows developers to elevate homes on fill dirt is environmentally harmful and can increase flood risks for nearby homes

Inequality ensures that feared financial losses moving away from fossil fuels will fall most heavily on the wealthy, and not on the poor and middle class

Temperatures are skyrocketing. Extinctions are accelerating. Groundwater is being depleted. Humanity can limit damage, but it will take collective global action

Meat eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists

In many places around the world, groundwater is being pumped out faster than nature replenishes it. A new model points to a possible solution

The overall picture of Earth’s health is grim, although there are bright spots: solar and wind power are on the rise, and deforestation has slowed

First-of-its-kind FEMA funding aims to update archaic building codes that leave millions of people exposed to climate-fueled hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather

For decades industry has claimed that curbing pollution costs too much, but the reality has proven otherwise. Here we go again, this time on power plant carbon emissions

Biden’s new program is expected to hire 20,000 people in its first year for renewable energy projects and ecological restoration

250 million years from now, the emergence of a new supercontinent could render most of Earth’s surface uninhabitable for mammals