Washington, D.C.  is suing the four largest investor-owned oil and gas companies — BP , Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell — for allegedly misleading consumers about climate change, including historically undermining climate science and even…

Ethiopia has set out to plant 5 billion tree seedlings this year. The planting is part of the country’s larger reforestation initiative spearheaded by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Launched in…

Adán Vez Lira, a prominent defender of an ecological reserve in Mexico, was shot while riding his motorcycle  in April. Four years earlier, the renowned activist Berta Cáceres was shot dead in…

Some fires won't die. They survive underground during the winter and then reemerge the following spring, as documented in places like Alaska. They're called "overwintering," "holdover," or "zombie" fires, and they…