If Congress didn’t believe habitat destruction and degradation constitute ‘harm’ under the statute, why would it require permits and plans to offset habitat loss?
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When you breathe in wildfire smoke, harmful particles can travel deep into your body.
A tick disease researcher explains the risks and how she avoids bringing home ticks from both work and walking her dog in the woods. Lint rollers, tick checks and some types of chemicals play a role.
Courts have long let utilities seize private property to build transmission lines. Does that hold if the power flows to a single data center?
Increasing flash flooding is exhausting communities as they’re hit again and again.
The majority of endangered species listings over the years have involved habitat loss, from Chinook salmon to island foxes and many birds.
A look at cats’ diets as reported by researchers over many years shows they eat a lot more than people might think.
Too much fertilizer disrupts the hidden world of soil-dwelling microbes that were sustaining healthy crops long before synthetic fertilizer was invented.
Utilities face a dilemma: How to deliver power through dry, windy regions without accidentally starting a catastrophic fire.
Environmental DNA contained in a small sample of water, sand or even air can reveal the presence of people, wildlife and pathogens, helping researchers track where they’ve migrated.
Birds that migrate longer distances are the ones having the most trouble keeping up with climate change.
Setting a price for power might seem straightforward, but in reality it’s extremely complicated – and residential customers have very little influence in the decision.
A case involving the potential dangers of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup, relates to broader efforts to protect consumers.
They’re called rock glaciers, and they might not look like much, but they’ll continue to provide meltwater after the world’s iconic white glaciers are gone.
A public health researcher explains the signs to watch for that someone is developing heat exhaustion or heat stroke, and what to do.
Data center proposals are often local controversies with significant underlying principles at stake.
Detailed data is useful for understanding and addressing environmental effects on people’s lives in ways that become difficult or impossible if only the broadest and blurriest picture is developed.
Every year, the number of human-caused fires spikes on July 4, and many of them are related to fireworks. When trees and grasses are dry and the temperature high, the risk rises even more.
Both faults are along plate boundaries that move in similar ways and have ruptured in enormously destructive earthquakes in the past.
As the national conversation shifts to political finger-pointing, an important environmental question deserves careful scrutiny: What is the best approach to maintain urban water quality?
Decades of farmers using more fertilizer than they needed have quietly built up large reserves of nutrients in the soil.
Heat waves can be dangerous, and the conditions indoors can be worse than outdoors. A study of all the single-family homes in Austin, Texas, shows why.
When huge companies assert their patents, smaller businesses and public plant breeders are dissuaded from conducting research that might not be illegal at all.
At the heart of combating misinformation is critical thinking and recognizing when you’re being spun for corporate profit.
A newly drafted Pittsburgh Steelers player asked whether the city’s rivers are safe for swimming. A water researcher explains what ‘swimmable’ really means regarding the three rivers.