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If nothing is done, heatwaves could lead to the deaths of 90,000 Europeans each year by the end of the century, the European Environment Agency said.

Pipelines Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 from Russia to Germany could each leak the annual output of two million cars or two coal power plants.

In a discovery that underscores just how bad of a job humans do when it comes to preserving any environment they’re a part of, scientists spotted tens of thousands of barrels of what appears to be a toxic chemical dumped off the coast of Southern California. The barrels, which appear to have been

Businesses are saying no to shoppers who want to use their own cups and containers.

A new focus on making environmentalism an angrier protest movement threatens to make the effort to protect the planet just another wedge issue, writes Jake Novak.

Microchip manufacturers contaminated the groundwater in the 1980s. Almost 40 years later, the cleanup still isnt complete.

China's move away from fossil fuels would mean 2,000 fewer premature deaths in the U.S. by 2030

Lawmakers in New Jersey and Hawaii are looking to make the lives of their voters a whole lot harder by proposing an extreme statewide ban on plastics and Styrofoam.

The proposal Friday from the Environmental Protection Agency challenges the basis for the Obama regulation.

EPA announced on Friday it is withdrawing the pending rulemaking for uranium mining put in place on the last day of the Obama administration.

'Thanks to President Trump's regulatory reform agenda'

In a bipartisan move within a party of some shifting positions a conservative president moves to conserve the health of our oceans.

An estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic are floating in the waters between California and Hawaii

The concentration of planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is highest in the last 800,000 years. Here are the primary sources of greenhouse gas emissions according to EPA.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of floating trash halfway between Hawaii and California, has grown to more than 600,000 square miles, or twice the size of Texas.

Each year, 2 to 16 percent of hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells spill hydrocarbons, chemical-laden water, hydraulic fracturing fluids and other substances, according to a new study.The analysis, which appears Feb. 21 in Environmental Science & Tec