SALEM — New tree plantings are coming to Salem State University to help provide shade to Harrington Campus, after recent efforts to plant trees have been celebrated at…
Read more Salem State to plant more trees at Harrington Campus thanks to Gateway City fundingBOSTON — Amid warnings that biodiversity is in freefall, environmental leaders will gather in Montreal to hammer out measures aimed at shoring up the world’s land and marine…
Read more Governments gather in Canada in bid to boost biodiversityMOSCOW — About 1,700 seals have been found dead on the Caspian Sea coast in southern Russia, officials said Sunday. The authorities in the Russian province of Dagestan…
Read more 1,700 dead seals found on Russia’s Caspian coastRENO, Nev. — A tiny Nevada toad at the center of a legal battle over a geothermal power project has officially been declared an endangered species, after U.S.…
Read more Nevada toad in geothermal power fight gets endangered statusRENO, Nev. — A tiny Nevada toad at the center of a legal battle over a geothermal power project has officially been declared an endangered species, after U.S.…
Read more Nevada toad in geothermal power fight gets endangered statusRENO, Nev. — A tiny Nevada toad at the center of a legal battle over a geothermal power project has officially been declared an endangered species after U.S.…
Read more Endangered listing for Nevada toad in geothermal power fightANCHORAGE, Alaska — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed restrictions that would block plans for a copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region that…
Read more EPA proposes restrictions to block proposed Alaska mineSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The federal government said Monday it will spend $250 million over four years on environmental cleanup and restoration work around a drying Southern California lake…
Read more Drying California lake to get $250M in US drought fundingHOUSTON — More than 2 million people in the Houston area were under a boil order notice Monday after a power outage caused low pressure at a water…
Read more Water boil order issued for more than 2 million in HoustonKHERSON, Ukraine — Russian forces struck eastern and southern Ukraine early Sunday as utility crews scrambled to restore power, water and heating with the onset of snow and…
Read more Pockets of shelling across Ukraine as wintry warfare loomsKHERSON, Ukraine — Fleeing shelling, civilians on Saturday streamed out of the southern Ukrainian city whose recapture they had celebrated just weeks earlier as the country remembered a…
Read more Civilians escape Kherson after Russian strikes on freed cityBASS RIVER TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Up to 2.4 million trees would be cut down as part of a project to prevent major wildfires in a federally protected New…
Read more Fire plan would cut 2.4 million New Jersey Pinelands treesDAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey — Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it…
Read more Climate, politics double threat as Tigris-Euphrates shrivelsMENTONE, Texas — A strong earthquake that struck a remote area of the West Texas desert caused damage in San Antonio, hundreds of miles from the epicenter, officials…
Read more West Texas earthquake causes damage hundreds of miles awayJACKSON, Miss — Local officials in Mississippi’s capital city, where a late summer water crisis upended life for 150,00 people, have approved an emergency plan to increase staffing…
Read more Mississippi capital to hire emergency water plant workersSAN FRANCISCO — A lawsuit filed Thursday by the state of California accuses 3M, Dupont and 16 smaller companies of covering up the harm caused to the environment…
Read more California sues over ‘forever chemicals’ that taint waterSAN DIEGO — A 45-year-old female Asian elephant was euthanized because of her deteriorating health from age-related problems, the San Diego Zoo announced Friday. Devi had been undergoing…
Read more Devi the elephant, 45, euthanized at San Diego ZooJACKSON, Miss — Mississippi officials on Friday approved the city of Jackson’s request for $35.6 million in federal funds to help fix its crumbling water infrastructure, following this…
Read more Mississippi capital to receive $35.6M in federal water fundsJACKSON, Miss — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency confirmed Monday that the water in Mississippi’s capital city is safe to drink, after months of sampling at a treatment…
Read more EPA: Water in Mississippi’s capital city is safe to drinkPORTLAND, Maine — The federal government has outlined a strategy to try to protect an endangered species of whale while also developing offshore wind power off the East…
Read more Feds unveil plan to grow wind power while sparing rare whale
