Amazon has launched what it calls one of the biggest corporate water conservation efforts for a single U.S. watershed with a pledge to invest $20 million into the Colorado River Basin.

Executives are calling the program the Colorado River Basin Collaborative. Participating companies, including supermarket giant Aldi and The Coca-Cola Foundation...Read more

This year’s El Niño has the potential to be one of the strongest in living memory, and the evidence is showing up around the world.

The U.S. just saw its hottest summer on record in the Lower 48 states. Drought is slowing shipping in the Panama Canal. The Pacific is experiencing an exceptionally busy hurricane season, while the ...Read more

The Puget Sound region is heating up; there’s no doubt about it.

The years 2025 and 2026 saw warmer-than-usual temperatures across Western Washington, from Olympia to Bellingham. It’s not just here. NOAA recently reported that 2026 was the warmest summer on record for the contiguous United States.

And not just in the air. Puget Sound’s ...Read more

DENVER — St. Mary’s Glacier is gone.

And it may never return to its glory days as an iconic snowfield above 10,000 feet in Clear Creek County, where it drew year-round skiers and graced postcards mailed home by thousands of tourists who visited Colorado’s mountains.

The remaining bits of snow and ice melted away this past week, leaving ...Read more

As it faces the enormous task of rebuilding from a deadly flood that tore through communities in the Himalayas, Nepal is seeking compensation from the international Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage – meaning from countries that are major contributors to climate change, which it blames for the disaster.

Nepal Foreign Minister ...Read more

As Meta prepares to release new wearables, privacy fears surrounding its artificial intelligence glasses have triggered fresh lawsuits against the social media giant.

More than 70 people who bought, used or were recorded with Meta's smart glasses have sued the social media giant, claiming their intimate and sensitive images were exposed to ...Read more

The current round of panic over artificial intelligence is based on the conviction that the technology has slipped out of human control to do its own bidding in several recent incidents. To some disillusioned AI researchers — and some senior employees at leading AI companies — this is an early sign of a true threat to human civilization. But...Read more

Microsoft has rarely seen a wipeout like it.

At one point this summer, the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant saw its stock price plummet 35% from its all-time high.

The company wasn’t on the ropes financially. In fact, Microsoft was more profitable than ever, with a growing cloud computing business that propelled the company to earn $133 ...Read more

Central Florida astronaut Luke Delaney is getting closer to his first spaceflight as he and his three Crew-13 crewmates entered quarantine Thursday night targeting a Space Coast launch in early October.

Delaney, 47, who grew up in Volusia County and attended both DeLand and Deltona high schools, was chosen as a member of the 2021 class of ...Read more

Diesel fuel prices in the U.S. continue to break all-time records, hitting $6.28 a gallon as a national average on Sept. 14, 2026, and they aren’t likely to come down anytime soon. Because diesel is the fuel for freight transportation, farming and construction – and is related to a key heating fuel – the effects are set to spread across...Read more

BALTIMORE — President Donald Trump issued an executive order this week revoking an order that has mandated states and municipalities to contribute to improving the health of the Chesapeake Bay for 17 years, claiming the order allowed for unnecessary taxes, according to a White House news release.

The Obama-era executive order from 2009 ...Read more

Across Appalachia and the Rust Belt region, including throughout the city of Pittsburgh, former industrial sites are being transformed into new neighborhoods, research centers and technology hubs.

But another transformation has been taking place beneath them for decades.

Brownfields are former industrial or commercial sites. ...Read more

An icon of Jersey Shore waterways is in peril, according to a Stockton University study.

The osprey, a raptor that feeds primarily on fish, was reclassified from “threatened” to “stable” by New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection’s Fish and Wildlife agency, but a recent study by Atlantic County University, whose mascot ...Read more

A major change by the Trump administration will reduce future power prices around the country. Unfortunately, it took a unilateral act of the executive branch rather than an act of Congress.

On Monday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced sweeping changes to the U.S. power sector. The agency is rolling back greenhouse gas requirements on ...Read more

When California’s groundbreaking law on single-use plastic passed in 2022 to address the growing scourge of plastic pollution, it had broad political support. There was the state Chamber of Commerce, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a powerful ocean advocate and Californians Against Waste.

But now as the law’s deadlines and requirements finally ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge in Sacramento has ordered the Trump administration to designate critical habitat for the Sierra Nevada red fox, a species so rare it was erroneously thought to be locally extinct.

The bushy-tailed foxes, which once were plentiful at high elevations in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains of California ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The ramifications of propping up Lake Powell at Lake Mead’s expense are on full display in the federal government’s latest numbers for the two reservoirs along the Colorado River.

While Lake Mead may keep plunging until it’s firmly below 1,000 feet in elevation or close to it in summer 2028, Lake Powell is projected to ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday signed an executive order aimed at protecting bees and other critical pollinators as they face compounding threats from climate change, habitat loss and pesticides.

“Pollinators touch everything we love about Colorado,” Polis said shortly before signing the order during a news conference at ...Read more