While floating solar—the emerging practice of putting solar panels on bodies of water—is promising in its efficiency and its potential to spare agricultural and conservation lands, a new experiment finds environmental trade-offs.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission wrote in its decision that the agency's current process of considering emissions impacts as individual projects

Farm groups and recipients of USDA grants are trying to find out if promised money for conservation projects is still coming.

Cornell researchers have discovered a way for ammonia oxidizing archaea (AOA), one of the most abundant types of microorganisms on Earth, to produce nitrous oxide, a potent and long-lasting greenhouse gas.

At a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, acknowledged climate change is “real” and that greenhouse gasses are making the planet hotter—but stopped short of saying the agency must regulate them.

The two new battery electric buses purchased will offer reduced greenhouse gas emissions and a quieter ride for the Loudoun County community.

While floating solar -- the emerging practice of putting solar panels on bodies of water -- is promising in its efficiency and its potential to spare agricultural and conservation lands, a new experiment finds environmental trade-offs.

In his first week as president, Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders, including several to do with the environment.

The climate has changed in the past, long before humans, so how do scientists know our recent warming is caused by man?

According to Washington law, the state departments of Ecology and Commerce are required to report the state's total greenhouse gas emissions every two years.

The rapidly shrinking sea ice pack in Antarctic waters will likely recover if prompt action is taken to contain greenhouse gas emissions, according to a simulation by an acclaimed team of scientists.

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