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3M agrees to pay more than $7 billion to settle ‘forever chemical’ groundwater contamination claims

Associated Press 5 Nov 2026
Components of the hybrid reef system being installed in Kalaeloa Harbor, which will integrate 60 engineered, concrete reef-mimicking structures with living coral. Image courtesy of Hawaii Department of Transportation.

How a ‘living breakwater’ in Hawai‘i aims to create coral habitat and protect coastline

Jules Struck 4 Nov 2026

US couple sentenced for helping finance trade in rhino horn, puma bones, other wildlife parts

Naina Rao 3 Nov 2026
A white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)

Diverse forests can better withstand extreme weather events, study finds. Here’s why

Claudia Geib 2 Nov 2026

Flash flooding triggers evacuations in Southwest and dire warning for Colorado spa town

Associated Press 2 Nov 2026
A man carries a discarded television set that he bought in Tondo, Manila. Image © Greenpeace.

Philippines halts U.S. e-waste imports but struggles to police customs-free zones

Biena Magbitang, Helena Rodríguez Gómez, Louis Boyd-Madsen, Gabriele Di Donfrancesco 30 Oct 2026

US public lands tracker highlights the collective impact of Trump policies

Bobby Bascomb 28 Oct 2026

Five new mussel species reveal how much biodiversity US rivers still conceal

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2026

Mass sloth deaths prompt US bill calling for import ban

Bobby Bascomb 23 Oct 2026

Facing pushback on data centers, tech giants are promising hosts more money and fewer secrets

Associated Press 22 Oct 2026
A pod of 30 belugas was transferred from the shuttered park Marineland to various facilities as part of an unprecedented two-month-long rescue. Image © Shedd Aquarium/Brenna Hernandez.

Six beluga deaths cast a shadow over rescue from Canada’s Marineland

Spoorthy Raman 21 Oct 2026
A deep-sea cucumber among polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Image courtesy of ROV-Team GEOMAR/ROV KIEL 6000/GEOMAR.

US deep-sea mining claims in Pacific’s high seas now rival the area set aside by international regulator

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Andrés Alegría 20 Oct 2026

Can larger batteries safely power residential buildings? A project in New York aims to show how

Associated Press 20 Oct 2026
Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) in Louisiana

Recycled glass offers a potential new tool to restore a vanishing coastline

Fernanda Biasoli 20 Oct 2026
Two wolf puppies from the Junction Butte Pack in Yellowstone National Park

What 500,000 hours of Yellowstone sound can tell us about wolves

Rhett A. Butler 19 Oct 2026
As the world grapples with the growing plastic pollution crisis, new accounting methods pushed by the chemical recycling industry could undermine national and international recycling targets and distract from real policy solutions, critics say.

Plastic industry bookkeeping plans hide chemical recycling harms, critics say

Claire Asher 16 Oct 2026
A wolf howls with the Sawtooth Mountains in the background. Image © Jim and Jamie Dutcher.

As US states reduce recently restored wolf populations, here’s what we risk losing (commentary)

Jim and Jamie Dutcher 16 Oct 2026

“Stunningly short-sighted.” NOAA grant cuts threaten US climate resilience

Bobby Bascomb 14 Oct 2026

Supreme Court declines to hear the case of a lobster fisherman who opposes boat tracking

Associated Press 14 Oct 2026

Chinook salmon return to historical habitat following removal of four US dams

David Brown 12 Oct 2026
A young Diné girl assists her aunt in collecting water for their livestock. Courtesy of the Center for Indigenous Health

Indigenous women bring leadership, creativity & joy to clean water action (commentary)

Justine Apodaca 12 Oct 2026
Aerial view of Arizona border wall construction where tree sit protests have been occurring. Image courtesy of the author.

Activists cite ecological, social connections in blocking US border wall construction (commentary)

Meg Perret 8 Oct 2026

Tropical Storm Isaias forms, is forecast to become a hurricane and hit US Gulf Coast this week

Associated Press 7 Oct 2026
An Australian sea lions (Neophoca cinerea)

Invading the globe: Bird flu now threatens Australia and Oceania

Christine Heinrichs 7 Oct 2026
Salamander

Helping 100,000 amphibians safely cross the road

Jonathan Vit 6 Oct 2026

Isle Royale wolves inbred but likely to survive, study says

Associated Press 30 Sep 2026
Adult southern mountain yellow-legged frogs in the headstarting facility at the Los Angeles Zoo.

New releases a leap forward for endangered frog in southern California

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 Sep 2026

The mountain lion photo that helped change Los Angeles

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Sep 2026

US contractors reportedly purchase tin from company accused of illegal Amazon mining

Mongabay 23 Sep 2026
Olive ridley turtle.

Agency says sea turtle eggs laid on California beaches are a first for the US West Coast

Associated Press 23 Sep 2026
Looking out at "Mussel Rock" from the road. This area of Northern California is the ancestral terrioty of the Cosatal Yuki people. Image courtesy of Kai Pomo.

California Tribes receive beach and ancestral village site back from transportation authority

Liz Kimbrough 22 Sep 2026

Critics question oil and gas spending in Mexico’s proposed climate budget

Maxwell Radwin 22 Sep 2026

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