Swedish automaker Volvo says that by 2030 all of its cars will be electric.

Republicans in the Oklahoma legislature vote to grant immunity to motorists who hit demonstrators.

For the second year in a row, Orlando, Florida, is rated the most dangerous city in the United States for pedestrians.

By a vote of 66 to 34, the US Senate confirms Michael S. Regan as EPA administrator.

The Biden administration backs Vineyard Wind, what would be the nation’s largest offshore wind-energy project, 12 miles off Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

If global carbon emissions continue unchecked, by 2100, summers in the Northern Hemisphere could last six months.

Climate change is reducing the number of butterflies in the western United States by 1.6 percent a year, and has done so for the past 40 years.

The eastern hellbender, a giant salamander native to Missouri, is granted endangered species status.

In France, four 200-year-old oak trees of a projected thousand are felled to provide timber to rebuild the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. 

In 2020, for the first time since 1947, more than 1 percent of the US population died.  

Wisdom, the 70-year-old albatross who is the world’s oldest known bird, hatches another chick.