Environment

Biden will rejoin the Paris Agreement and cancel the Keystone XL pipeline.

President-elect Joe Biden plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline immediately upon assuming the role of president, multiple sources report.

NASA found 2020 to be the hottest year on record, just barely edging out the previous record holder.

Who is responsible for the Flint water crisis? Those responsible for the ongoing issue are going to be indicted with the Flint water settlement underway.

How is Vancouver helping its homeless population? A builder in the B.C. Canadian metropolis proposed to house those in need with tiny townhouses.

Climate change has affected rivers so much that a whopping one-third of long rivers across the U.S. have changed color over the past few decades.

What exactly would a Democratic Senate mean for the climate? Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff's victories could be huge for the environment.

Satellite alert subscriptions played a huge part in curbing deforestation for nations in Africa that used the tech for monitoring purposes.

How are llamas helping cure the coronavirus? Apparently, llamas can produce nanobodies that are more effective than any human-borne antibodies.

Indian designer Lakshmi Menon collected leftover fabric scraps from those making masks, gowns, and other PPE, and used the fabric to make much-needed mattresses for hospitals treating COVID-19 patients.

On the same day that the United States left the Paris Climate Agreement, former Vice President Joe Biden has vowed to rejoin the international agreement if he wins the contested presidential election.

The Ashaninka tribe won a $3 million settlement from the company that deforested a quarter of its reserve in the 1980s.

How does Aptera Motors’ solar electric vehicle work? Read on to learn all about this groundbreaking three-wheeled, solar-powered car.

A physics grad student figured out how to use a cotton candy machine to repurpose discarded plastic into N95-style face masks, for free PPE.

Finding a little additional happiness is now more important than ever, and apparently, the biodiversity of birds is linked to our happiness and moods.

Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Nestlé have been named the world's biggest corporate plastic polluters for the third year in a row by Break Free From Plastic's latest annual audit.

Lab-grown chicken nuggets are finally set to hit the market, as Singapore has just become the first country to approve of them.

Bank of America has pledged not to fund oil and gas exploration in the Arctic, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

A Turtle Hospital helped migrate a bunch of gelid reptiles from Cape Cod to the Florida Keys in a Thanksgiving rescue operation.

The United Kingdom will become the first major economy to ban the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars to tackle the climate crisis.

Joe Biden's potential climate task force would be a huge step forward within the ongoing fight against global warming.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has taken a jab at President Donald Trump amid the contested election.

Denmark’s government is mandating the nationwide slaughter of all 17 million mink currently living on fur farms in response to the coronavirus.

The Trump administration just removed protections on the country's largest national forest.

NetZero mycelium orbs may look like they belong in the tub, but these mushroom orbs actually belong in a watering can or hose sprayer.

Amy Coney Barrett shared her views on climate change during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and environmentalists were not impressed.

With many campuses turning to online learning amid the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing limiting social lives, some students have found themselves with a lot more time on their hands.

After researchers traveled to the Arctic, they found that the Arctic ice is rapidly melting, and should be completely gone within a few decades.

The young royal seems to be following in his dad's conservationist footsteps!

Wildfires are almost always tearing through the gorgeous Golden State year-round and apparently, there's a scientific reason that explains why their forests are at especially high risk.

France is banning the use of wild animals in traveling circuses, marine parks, and mink fur farms.

England’s ban on plastic straws, plastic stirrers, and plastic-stemmed cotton swabs is now law.

The record was previously held by Jennifer Aniston.

California will no longer sell new gas-powered cars come 15 years from now, as Governor Gavin Newsom just signed an executive order.

"These competitions that feature piles of animal carcasses are not only cruel and unsporting, but they are also at odds with science," the Humane Society's president said about wildlife killing contests, which are now illegal in seven states.

A 44-square-mile chunk of the Arctic’s largest ice shelf in Northeast Greenland has broken apart and disintegrated.