The Environment

A new report points out some of the ways children are getting left behind during COVID-19 and other disasters — and how we can do better.

In this episode we explore the toll COVID-19 has taken on migration and how corruption is making it that much worse for vulnerable groups.

There’s something shellfishy about the algal blooms.

This test of the new administration and of our national character has now begun. We need to vaccinate, test, mask-up, continue to practice social distance, and do all we can to rid America and then the world of this terrible virus.

Scientists are working to improve their calculations of earthquake danger by combining maps of known faults with the use of supercomputers to simulate potential shaking deep into the future in California.

If Biden followed the example of 38 other countries, would it blaze a path to meaningful action, or just be an empty proclamation?

Biden directed his agencies to recalculate the social cost of carbon, the amount it really costs to emit CO2.

first factory production means recharging could soon be as fast as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles.

We’re inaugurating something, too.

Tribes and environmentalists hail decision to cancel Keystone XL pipeline but call on president to go further.

What’s Biden actually accomplished on climate? We’re keeping track.

A variety of factors conspire to put people and property in harm’s way.

On a clear day, you may see wind turbines forever.

The South’s biodiversity can be saved — if we can learn to value its natural resources the way we value those of the American West.

Filmmaker Karen Kocher has devoted her craft to protecting Austin’s beloved Barton Springs.

Researchers have reconstructed past sea levels in the western Mediterranean in new detail by sampling coastal cave formations.