Environment

Scientists estimate that the dead zone could grow to around 7,829 square miles—or about the same size as the state of Massachusetts.

U.S. Department of Energy pushes forward with plans to reclassify some of its nuclear waste from Cold War weapons research.

The leeches were sniffed out by dogs at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.

"Take a look at the gigantic new potty that Jared and Ivanka’s landlord is renting from the federal government," former ethics chief Richard Painter tweeted.

The research team also found that only 21 of the 91 long rivers that were once connected to the ocean still retain a direct connection from source to sea.

Some of the trees are thought to be at least 200 years old.

In the new book "Downriver," Heather Hansman paddles the length of the Green River—the biggest tributary of the Colorado River - in an attempt to understand the fight overwater, and what’s going to happen to those battles in a hotter, drier, more crowded future.

The U.S. said that “floods once again show the level of Iranian regime mismanagement in urban planning and in emergency preparedness” weeks after flooding ravaged the Midwest.

The archipelago off the coast of Sri Lanka is quickly becoming the Dubai of the ocean, but at what cost?

President Donald Trump signed the country’s largest wilderness preservation legislation in a decade—but cut Environmental Protection Agency funding by 31 percent.

The Senate passed the Natural Resources Management Act, which conserves and protects more than a million acres of federal land. The bill now goes to the House.

The president celebrated his second year in office by speaking out against climate change, tweeting about the cold weather on the East Coast before adding that it “wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!”

“The technology has major environmental ramifications and has the potential to alter the economic and political landscape in many U.S. states.”

“They say he's the Donald Trump of Brazil. Can you believe that? But he likes it,” Trump said.

Furloughs have prevented staff from holding meetings on proposals to undo Obama-era environmental protections.

The innovative Recycled Park Project aims to catch plastic waste before it enters the sea and convert it into floating island parks that are run by local communities.

Local authorities apparently used white sticky paint in an attempt to hide the soot and ash dirtying the snow.

“Mr. Bernhardt has represented mining and extraction companies, developers, and oil and gas interests," wrote 150 environmental advocacy groups in a letter.

As it retreated, the Islamic State poisoned the wells it drank from—in their hundreds.

“I live with four of them," Carlson said, referring to the women he lives with.

Environmental activists hope the governor-elect will get tough on the oil and gas industry.

No one wants to kill an animal that near extinction. So how come the popular Endangered Species Act isn't working?

"Boats and planes can’t go everywhere," one scientist said. Satellites on the other hand...

Some 600,000 children were killed by air pollution in 2016.

"These predatory mice are pushing albatross, buntings, petrels and other seabirds towards extinction," said the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Pando is a unique "forest of one tree" covering some 106 acres of the Fishlake National Forest in Utah.

Insects have high levels of fat, protein, vitamin, fiber and mineral content.

West Coast states lead the pack for most environmentally friendly cities in America.

Around 11 percent of the world’s 7.6 billion people currently live in areas less than 33 feet above sea level.

Kavanaugh will cement the Supreme Court's conservative bloc...Here's what could change next year.