The magnolia warbler travels as many as 2,000 miles, high above the Gulf of Mexico and across the entirety of the United States, before arriving in the cool climate of Canada’s boreal forest to breed. On a morning in May, one of the tiny yellow songbirds found itself entangled in a black net strung u...
To protest construction of the Weymouth Gas Compressor south of Boston, Andrea Honore sat outside the office of former Republican Gov. Charlie Baker for a total of 211 days over three years beginning in 2017. Despite her protest, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Massachusetts environmenta...
Maycee Michaels grew up raising a wide array of animals on her family’s ranch in Wilcox, Arizona, and recognizes the severity of what climate change can do to ranchers and people living in rural areas of the American west. Statewide water cutoffs have made access to secure water sources significantl...
Operator errors caused 402,486 gallons of crude oil to gush out of an EnLink Midstream pipeline south of Midland, Texas on the night of March 29. The EnLink incident is one of over 100 crude oil spills in Texas reported to federal regulators since Jan. 1, 2022. But the size of the EnLink spill—whic...
Much of Guam remains without power or running water after Typhoon Mawar lashed the United States’ second-largest territory Wednesday night. The Category 4 storm tore off roofs and mangled trees with fierce wind and rain. Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero gave the “all clear” Thursday evening, and officials hav...
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to protect wetlands applied only to those that are indistinguishable from, and have a “continuous surface connection” to, larger lakes, oceans, streams and rivers. Environmentalists said the decision sharply limite...