Environment

A small planting on a South African farm in 1976 was meant to solve an immediate problem: stopping…

Zack Polanski has challenged Andy Burnham’s government to publish an unredacted version of an explosive report by the…

Denmark’s long-running effort to create forests on former farmland has revealed a striking trade-off between carbon storage and…

US had just two 500-foot smokestacks An effort by American power companies to reduce local air pollution in…

New Mexico’s Elephant Butte Reservoir was nearly full on June 2, 1994 (left), in contrast to very low…

To begin to understand how a “super” El Niño winter could punish the Southern California coast, the historic…

Ministers are exploring making water more expensive for some users, in the face of severe supply shortages. Despite…

Dhara Rivera de Jesús keeps at least 30 large water containers in her home at all times. After…

Reuters — US states filed two lawsuits on Wednesday accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of illegally weakening the federal…

A rapid global shift to clean electricity could trigger a “cascade” of progress towards repairing the damage to…

QUITO, Ecuador — The prediction that this season’s El Nino phenomenon will be stronger than normal has alarmed…

As summer winds down in West Africa, so does much of the region’s dust activity. Dust storms can…

A South African farmer planted trees to stop erosion in 1976; 50 years later, the land became a major forest-restoration experiment | World News