Almost half of proposed area of construction falls within hunting and roaming zone that is essential to animal’s survival

Climate change and invasive predators have taken a heavy toll on native animals and insects in the Hawaiian Islands

Center for Biological Diversity says new program bypasses findings and leaves decisions to employees who are not experts

In a confidential document obtained by the Guardian, officials say releasing records could have a ‘chilling effect’ on their deliberations

Third of coastline cannot be affordably protected, government climate change advisers say, with current plans ‘not fit for purpose’

Evidence is ‘compelling’ that organophosphates increase risk of reduced IQs, memory and attention deficits, and autism for prenatal children

Exclusive: Simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more, but ‘a smog of complacency pervades the planet’, says Dr Tedros Adhanom

Ruling cancels indefinitely a controversial sport hunt of grizzlies in Wyoming and Idaho

Biologists fear that the storm surge carried with it red tide toxins that can cause respiratory distress and flu-like symptoms

An Environmental Protection Agency panel that advises the agency’s leadership on the latest scientific information about soot in the atmosphere is not listed as continuing its work next year, an E.P.A. official said.