Humberto Less quit his job in Barcelona to return home to Gran Canaria to clean up the coastline and find ways to turn waste into furniture that will last a lifetime.

Six Native American tribes are suing Wisconsin to try to stop its planned wolf hunt in November

The dispute threatened to derail a multi-state agreement to protect the river.

It's hard to tell farmers they won't get water they need or maybe none at all.

The CEOs of Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron and Shell have been called to testify before Congress on an alleged industry-wide disinformation campaign.

Top officials neglected to fulfill citizens’ rights to clean air the court said.

The hole already surpasses the size of Antarctica.

Dozens of American Indian tribes are demanding the Biden administration enact emergency protections for gray wolves

Researchers have completed a comprehensive online map of the world’s coral reefs by using more than 2 million satellite images

Spanish scientists say Europe's southernmost glaciers will likely be reduced to ice patches in the next two decades due to climate change

The U.N. weather agency says the world and especially urban areas experienced a brief and sharp drop in emissions of air pollutants last year

Lanternflies may be pretty to look at, but wildlife officials are saying they can threaten crops and damage outdoor furniture.

Wildlife officials are urging people to kill spotted lanternflies as the insect spreads across some U.S. states

Trump ended protections for hundreds of thousands of small streams and wetlands.

Despite a few high-profile conservation success stories, birds of prey worldwide are in decline

A team of Arctic researchers from Denmark say they accidentally discovered it.

Federal scientists are launching an effort to better understand the hydrology in the U.S. West

An innovative project in the remote Galapagos islands has turned dozens of local inhabitants into citizen scientists at a moment when the pandemic has dried up tourist income

Bees -- whether wild or managed --are integral to the production of the world's food supply.

The northern Colorado city of Greeley is in one of the fastest-growing regions in the United States

Federal officials have declared a shortage in Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the country, amid a historic decadeslong megadrought in the region.

Hyenas help redistribute calcium and phosphorous by crunching bones.

Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is viewed, along with electric vehicles, as one way to slow the environmentally destructive impact of the planet’s 1.2 billion vehicles, most of which burn gasoline and diesel fuel

Greater detection of toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water systems nationwide has alarmed state and local leaders and prompted Congress to seek urgent action from EPA.

About 96,000 farmed salmon are believed to have died when a leak in a tank sent 15,000 liters (4,000 gallons) of chlorine into a fjord in Arctic Norway and further out to the Atlantic Ocean

Lawmakers and water utilities in the West are urging residents to conserve water as reservoirs hit record lows amid megadrought driven by climate change.

The owner of an inactive Colorado mine that was the source of a 2015 spill that fouled rivers in three Western states has sued the U.S. government

The Paraná River, one of the main commercial waterways in South America, has reached its lowest level in nearly 80 years due to a prolonged drought in Brazil that scientists attribute to climate change

There are about 2 million abandoned oil and gas wells nationwide.

A bright pink lagoon is setting off red alarms for environmentalists in southern Argentina

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when demand for Earth’s ecological resources exceeds what the planet can regenerate.

Hundreds of thousands of young salmon are dying in Northern California.

The USGS said Saturday it was about an inch below the previous record.

ABC News' Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee reports from Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland, where conservationists fight to preserve both wildlife and African American history.

Australia has garnered enough international support to defer for two years an attempt by the United Nations’ cultural organization to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status because of damage caused by climate change

South Korean conglomerate CJ Cheiljedang is jumping into the global market to begin mass production of PHA biodegradable plastic.

Amid the stench of dead fish, protesters marched along Florida's Tampa Bay.

It's the largest wilderness land donation in the Interior Department's history.

The Biden administration is ending large-scale, old-growth timber sales on the nation’s largest national forest and will instead focus on forest restoration, recreation and other non-commercial uses

A unusually large bloom of toxic red tide is being blamed for a massive fish kill in Florida’s environmentally sensitive Tampa Bay

Environmental groups and homeowners have filed a federal lawsuit against state regulators for approving Alabama Power’s fees on customers with rooftop or on-site solar

Electrify America, an electric vehicle charging network funded with money paid by Volkswagen as punishment for its emissions cheating scandal, says it plans to more than double its number of charging stations throughout the United States and Canada

Massive amounts of green are being spent to find “green” ways to prevent floods.

TRASH TALK: Meet Jellyfishbot, the robot cleaner eating garbage in the sea.

A study estimates that Wisconsin's wolf population dropped by up to one-third.

The state-owned oil company says it was a bizarre chain of events.

Deforestation continues to threaten species around the world.

A gas leak at an underwater pipeline unleashed a subaquatic fireball.

Shells discarded by diners are collected, cleaned and dumped into waterways.

Environmentalists are claiming victory after a company canceled its plans.