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A national movement to ban plastic bags is gaining steam, but these restrictions may actually hurt the environment more than help it.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Sen. Tom Carper, chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, about Thursday's hearing on the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dan Reicher of Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment about a historic agreement addressing land-use for large scale solar projects.

If you live in a big city, you may have noticed new buildings popping up — a high-rise here, a skyscraper there. The concrete jungles that we've built over the past century have allowed millions of us to live in close proximity, and modern economies to flourish. But what have we given up by moving away from the forest environments in which humans first evolved? This week, we revisit our 2018 conversation about the healing power of nature with psychologist Ming Kuo.

The cotton seeds aboard a lunar lander had encouraged hopes that plants could grow on the moon. But days after China boasted of the experiment's success, the tender shoots died.

What used to be an almost dead lake is now teeming with fish and bird activity, as well as other plant and animal life. Audubon New York and the Onondaga…

Writer JOE KANE talks about his new book Savages (Knopf 1995) It's his first hand account on the confrontations between Amazonian warriors and multi-national oil companies, environmentalists and missionaries. Kane writes about the Huoarani (Wow-rahn-nee) tribe's fight for its culture and environment. Kane's earlier book Running the Amazon was a 1989 New York Times best-seller

In his book, A Contract with the Earth, Newt Gingrich describes a conservative approach to conservation. He says it would focus more on technology-based, entrepreneurial solutions, not regulation, litigation and taxation.

About 20 SUNY ESF water stewards are among hundreds of others who’ve fanned out to waterways across the state this week hoping to prevent the spread of…

The pig is intended to symbolize the greed of fossil fuel companies at the expense of climate change, the environment, and public health. Five major multinational fossil fuel companies report a record $55 billion in the second quarter of 2022.