ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Over the past two months, the Trump administration has ...

A proposed rule would narrow the definition of harm under the Endangered Species Act and could open the door to more mining, ...

Climate change refers to a statistically defined ... ice and the living components of Earth. The definition does not usually require the causes of change to be attributed, for example to human ...

Member of Parliament Kanimozhi Karunanidhi has called upon the Union Government to revise India’s official definition of heatwaves to reflect growing climate challenges. In a letter addressed ...

The B.C. government says residents should start preparing for wildfire and flood season with go-bags and insurance, as ...

Despite hopeful tones, this year's World Bank meetings were light on climate ambitions. Plus, Brazil’s forest ambitions and ...

Nearly 10 years ago, Pope Francis released a brutal diagnosis of climate change: It was a profound failure of human morality. Read today, in the week of his death, the pamphlet feels both more distant ...

The climate crisis is amplifying displacement and making life harder for those already forced to flee. Climate change and displacement are increasingly interconnected. As extreme weather events and ...

In what could be one of the most significant actions the Trump administration has taken on the environment, officials have proposed redefining what it means to “harm” a plant or animal under ...

Amid all the bad climate news flowing out of the Trump administration, you might have missed a quiet new consensus congealing in think tanks and big business. The targets set out by the Paris ...

And if you change the definition, I think there’s the risk ... for water, for wildlife and climate—systematically and rapidly,” Greenwald said. Perhaps you noticed: This story, like all ...