Brian Palmer

On a search to find our right to clean drinking water in U.S. and international law.

Vague regulations let government officials hide drinking water contamination from the public.

"Environmental justice" isn't only about what is put in whose backyard—it's the future of the environmental movement.

High chloride levels are problematic.

Where else can we cut?

How India builds its energy grid could decide the fate of humanity. Maybe we should help the country out.

Flint made many mistakes, but its haphazard lead monitoring system was the worst of them.

The government has suspended new coal leases on federal land. The coal industry may never recover.

Forest conservation is crucial to climate change mitigation. But do we have any idea how to do it?

Cities, states, and businesses—not just those world leaders in Paris—will save us from climate change. Here’s what they’re going to do.

And it's one that even big businesses can get behind.

Here are the Senate’s options for trying to muck up the international agreement made in Paris.

Here’s a minute-by-minute rundown.

They tend to invest significantly more in the future of our children.

How to decipher the Russian president’s mystifying statements on global warming.

The tiny South Asian kingdom of Bhutan absorbs three times as much carbon as it emits.

Here are the best- and worst-case outcomes for the Paris climate talks.

President Obama has cut the Senate out of the Paris climate change agreement. Cue the tantrums.

Solutions are available. We just need the political will to pursue them.

Historian and author Timothy Snyder discusses climate change, genocide, and the ideology of Hitler.

It's the end of the line for the Keystone pipeline (probably), but not for battles over tar sands and climate.

You like parks? These people beg to differ.

What a bee-free diet might look like.

By harassing climatologists, a notorious group of congressmen renews its war against scientists.

What’s an intended nationally determined contribution?

The complicated environmental policies of Canada’s new prime minister.

India says it can’t meet its carbon-reduction pledge without help. Any takers?

Uranium mining threatens aquifers that could provide the drought-stricken West with emergency water supplies.

A researcher accuses the government of extreme bias in assessing the value of weatherization.

An Indian public-health official thinks the United States could learn a thing or two from her country about dealing with climate change (and vice versa).

The U.S. Navy agrees to give marine mammals off California and Hawaii a break from deafening noise.

As fences spring up on all sides, a great wildlife reserve morphs into something much less great.

A new study tells us how we can have both.

New research suggests even small amounts of air pollution can make you sick.

The oil and gas industry says, “not it.”

This was a systemic failure, not an individual failure.

Hotter equals drier.

Don't drink the porpoise milk—it's contaminated.

Five years ago, a pipeline spilled a million gallons of tar sands crude into a Michigan river—and we’re still cleaning it up.

Bumblebees risk extinction by failing to react to climate change.

A prestigious medical journal warns of the dangers climate change poses to public health in one of the most convincing and most frightening papers on the subject yet.

Taking a deeper look at a recent study that many misread the results of.

The U.S. government classifies all chimpanzees as endangered, after decades of stalling.

A new study says captive breeding programs often do endangered species more harm than good.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the process of killing thousands of cormorants without even considering the ethics.

Habitat destruction isn’t just killing wildlife—it’s killing us.

Have we learned nothing?

Dear coal industry, stop reminiscing over outdated power plants. They’re holding you—and us—back.

Is it safe to operate a nuclear reactor 34 miles from 8.4 million people?

Global atmospheric CO2 is now above 400 ppm. That's uncharted territory for humans—but not for Earth.