One of the rarest whales and marine mammals in the world is set to receive critical habitat expansions in Alaska.
Three conservation groups say the ongoing project "will disturb the peace and quiet and the solitude of the wilderness as well as permanently impair its natural, undisturbed quality."
“I want you to know I hear you, the people in the United States and around the world hear you,” Biden told the leaders.
The rule aims to limit nitrogen oxide emissions from crossing state lines and damaging a neighboring state's air quality.
Though still a far cry from the species’ historic populations in Pacific Northwest waterways, this year’s return of the prehistoric, eel-like species to the Columbia River is a welcome sign for the environment and its advocates.
While California experienced multiple destructive floods in 2023, experts say the water year also ended on a high note with most counties completely free of drought.
An inundation of salt water — caused by low water levels in a drought-stricken Mississippi River — is expected to reach New Orleans' drinking water in the next few weeks.
A federal judge tentatively sided with Santa Barbara County over the question whether county leaders relied on substantive evidence when they denied the permit in 2022.
Over 1,000 firefighters were battling the blaze on Friday — half the number of firefighters from three weeks ago.
There are likely fewer than 100 Rice’s whales left in the Gulf of Mexico, the species’ only habitat. But the federal government unlawfully changed the terms of a lease sale to protect them, a judge said.
LAKE CHARLES, La. — Westlake Corp. has polluted surface and groundwater and caused subsidence near the Sulphur Mines Salt Dome, damaging properties and the environment, according to a class action lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court.
