Destiny Watford tackled pollution in Baltimore – and won. (Goldman Environmental Prize) Destiny Watford was tired of feeling like her voice wasn't heard. In her Baltimore-area community of Curtis Bay, that feeling was common. One of the most polluted cities in the United States, it seemed industry was taking priority over the people. Inspired by a play about pollution's effects on a community, Watford decided to take action. When she was 16, she co-founded an advocacy group called Free Your...

Climate change is putting a crimp on the future viability of many of our favorite foods — and now a new study says that tea could face significant impacts from shifting seasonal patterns. In a report published in the journal Climate,Tufts University researchers scoured through historical weather records as well asCamellia sinensistea production data from the years 1980 to 2011 using a unique "yield response model" to predict the "onset, duration, and retreat of the East Asian Monsoon." After crunching...

Lake Kivu is seen turning a light shade of blue in this image captured from space on April 20, 2016. (Image via NASA) Considered one of Africa's Great Lakes, Lake Kivu is an important waterway for shipping, fishing and providing drinkable water on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. When a recent, sudden color change occurred with the lake's water, residents and experts immediately took note. As documented by NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites from April...

The tell-tale symptoms of the Sudden Oak Death disease. (AP Photo/The World, Benjamin Brayfield) Millions of oak trees in California have been killed off by a deadly disease and, according to new study, nothing can be done to stop the virus from spreading. Cutting down the affected trees has been the only way officials have managed to keep the disease from spreading,PNASreports. But it's too little too late. If officials had started attempting to control the epidemic more than 10...

Greenland no.62, 47”x70”, Soft pastel on paper, 2013 (Zaria Forman) With global temperatures rising precipitously, which the vast majority of climate scientists attribute to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, researchershave found that the world’s glaciers are melting faster than ever before. In 2015, the World Glacier Monitoring Service conducted acomprehensive study of global glacier changes — published in the Journal of Glaciology — and found that "the rates of early 21st century [glacial] mass loss are without...

In this undated photo provided by the American Bald Eagle Foundation, a bald eagle perches on a tree branch along the Chilkat River within the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve outside Haines, Alaska. The preserve is about 10 miles downstream from a copper and zinc prospect that could someday be developed into a hard rock mine. Critics say a spill from mining operations could harm salmon in the rivers of the preserve, where up to 4,000 eagles gather each winter...

As climate change continues to progress, scientists are warning that water scarcity could become such an issue that it hinders economic growth, spurs migration and sparks conflict, creating large and uneven consequences across the globe. In a report titled High and Dry: Climate Change, Water and the Economy, the World Bank reveals that water will become scarce in regions where it is currently abundant, such as Central Africa and East Asia, if climate change continues unabated. On the other side...

Colorful corals draw snorkeling tourists to natural marine playlands along the Florida Keys, Mexican Riviera Maya and northeastern Australia, and new research shows the flailing ecosystems they underpin also protect beachfront hotels from erosion and floods. As coral reefs the world over bleach from warming waters, dissolve from acidification and are attacked by diseases and pests, scientists are discovering the critical roles that they play in breaking destructive swells before they reach coastlines. Coral reefs protect Caribbean coastline from erosion...

The beautiful beaches of Chile have long been a draw for tourists, but the dead whales, salmon, sardines and clams washing up on the shores lately have made them a lot less picturesque, and scientists believe El Niño is to blame. "We think that a common factor in the deaths of creatures in southern Chile, in the salmon farms and in fish off the coast is the El Nino phenomenon," experts at the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero (Fisheries Development Institute)...

New York City-based photographer Ken Bower captured stunning photos of an old, abandoned U.S. Air Force base known as Bluie East Two in Greenland. (Ken Bower) Greenland has a reputation of being one of the most pristine places in the world, but an old abandoned U.S. Air Force camp located in Ikateq, known as Bluie East Two,sticks out like a sore thumb. Thousands of fuel barrels litter the countryside surrounding the former military base, which was abandoned in 1947.Photographer Ken...

Workers are sickened by nuclear waste leaks at Hanford site in Wash. State. ...

Important fossil find reported in Antarctica. ...

GE’s huge new jet engine for airliners is largest one ever. ...