Carey L. Biron

New federal funding aims to ramp up the use of former garbage dumps for renewable energy projects key to cutting cities' emissions

New efforts seek to give smallholders alternatives to logging while helping to curb climate change.

White Americans own 98% of U.S. farmland, advocates say - now rural and urban growers of color are trying to get a fairer share

As many as 120,000 jobs could be created by stopping abandoned oil and gas wells leaking climate-warming methane into the atmosphere.

From San Francisco to the Midwest to New York, the pandemic has triggered a policy rethink about the fairness of fines and fees for prison phone calls, overdue library books, and parking violations.

The country is seeing a growing trend in green spaces governed by local residents, bringing conservation, educational benefits, and income to urban and rural communities.

Around the world, technological innovations to capture, store, reuse, or replace carbon pollution are on the rise.

Fourteen communities working with the Built for Zero program have reached the point where homelessness for veterans or those experiencing chronic homelessness is rare overall, and brief when it occurs.