While wind energy has been disparaged as “woke”, nearly 70% of America’s wind power is cranked out in states proudly flying the Republican flag. These red states are quietly leading the charge on wind energy, proving clean power isn’t just a blue state fad.

The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact.

Bridge materials expand and contract in response to temperature fluctuations. While most are equipped with features to accommodate that movement, they were designed to withstand historically cooler temperatures, says Paul Chinowsky, professor of civil engineering at the U of Colorado Boulder.

The Surfrider Foundation and our partners are celebrating a significant victory at the Hawai‘i Supreme Court, after challenging a state decision exempting a seed research company utilizing restricted use pesticides from complying with Hawai‘i’s environmental law.

Together with their amazing partners: California College of the Arts, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and ceramic artist Nathan Lynch, OIKONOS has brought their ceramic nest project to a new site: Alcatraz.

Even as California in facing increasing impacts of climate change on the ground, it is also in an intense policy discussion to reauthorize its pioneering climate policy and the Cap and Invest program.

Rather than trying to catch up with China by replicating the battery technologies already in mass production there, a smaller U.S. cohort is taking a different tack: building factories for next-generation batteries.

The rapid disintegration of glaciers on the islands north of Norway foreshadows a catastrophic future for the Arctic, scientists warn.

This year, the Brandt’s Cormorant population at Año Nuevo Island has soared beyond historical records with over 15,000 nesting birds. To count them, we collaborate with the UC Natural Reserve team, who fly drones high above to photograph the entire island.

We’re celebrating a surprising milestone in the fight for Oak Flat, public lands in Arizona sacred to Indigenous peoples and habitat for species like endangered ocelots and Arizona hedgehog cacti.

Back in 2014, it seemed absurd to Jenn Lovewell, director of Monterey Peninsula USD that the 10,000 students of the school district didn’t have access to the fish from the bay (versus no-local frozen fish sticks). She set out to change that.