Environment

Across much of Minnesota, warmer weather and rain are dealing a blow to the ice dams many homeowners have battled this winter. But now, melting snow and ice is creating a new problem in some houses: wet basements.

Enbridge announced earlier this month that construction of its Line 3 oil pipeline will be delayed until the second half of next year, leaving local communities like Hallock disappointed.

Students around the world and across the U.S. skipped classes Friday to protest inaction on climate change. It's part of a wave of pressure from young people who say their future is at stake.

After a decades-long effort to restore the gray wolf population in the United States, federal wildlife officials announced Thursday they are ready to take the animals off the endangered and threatened species list.

A trailblazing wind-solar hybrid project in western Minnesota could be a preview of what's to come as renewable developers look for new ways to bolster projects.

The online retailer says it's the first company of its kind to pay for carbon offsets for all its shipping.

Gray wolves in the U.S. would be stripped of federal protection and subject to hunting and trapping in more states under a proposal released Thursday that declares the predators recovered following a decades-long restoration effort.

A group of northwestern Minnesota counties is betting it will be cheaper in the long term to recycle and then burn the remaining trash they generate, rather than simply burying the trash.

Last year, China drastically cut back its imports of plastic waste to recycle. Now the U.S. and other wealthy nations must figure out what to do with their discards.

New Mexico lawmakers passed a bill this week mandating state utilities use 100 percent renewable energy by 2045. Meanwhile, oil production in the southeast corner of the state is breaking records.

The report concludes "unsustainable human activities globally have degraded the Earth's ecosystems, endangering the ecological foundations of society." But it also says changes in the way the world eats, buys things, gets its energy and handles its waste could help fix the problems.

The company's headquarters recently went all-renewable for its electricity, but it's not stopping there.

President Trump's newly released budget calls for spending $75.3 million toward construction of a new Great Lakes shipping lock in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

It's a small but significant change after several seasons of a catch-and-release-only policy that had frustrated anglers and local resorts around the iconic central Minnesota lake.

The latest culprit in Minnesota's battles against water pollution might be lurking in your basement.

In September, the UN stated that climate change is the defining issue of our time and that global leaders have until 2020 to come up with solutions. In a recent New York Times op-ed, columnist David Wallace-Wells says it might be time to panic about climate change.

Let's imagine that we've ended global warming. Humans no longer are releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Here's what life is like in a zero-carbon world.

The latest survey finds the moose population in northeastern Minnesota remains low but stable for the eighth consecutive year, the state Department of Natural Resources said Monday.

African-Americans and Hispanics breathe in far more deadly air pollution than they are responsible for making, a new study said.