Workers are pushing for improved training and safety standards to help avoid falls, electrocution and equipment failure.

In June 1979, President Jimmy Carter announces his new solar energy policy while standing in front of solar panels placed on West Wing roof of the White House. Credit: Glasshouse Images/Alamy ...

Using detailed, vernacular sentences that hew closely to her characters’ perspectives, The Crazies unravels a NIMBY phenomenon that is happening across the West as the U.S. pushes to decarbonize, ...

Saguaros are known for growing slowly, only about a quarter of an inch during their first two years. By the time he was 70, Grandpa was likely 6 feet tall and producing flowers and fruit. By his first ...

At Sequoia National Park in California, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees cover trees in structure wrap to protect them from fires in late September, 2021. Credit: Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo ...

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Shaun Griswold, a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna with Jemez and Zuni ancestry, gives everyone a lot to consider in this Fourth of July perspective piece about the meaning of truth and what it’s ...

Amy Gamerman’s new book examines attempts to block the energy transition in Montana’s Crazy Mountains.