The Portland metro area lands in the middle of the pack for ozone pollution, according to a new report from the American Lung ...

Maine and its New England neighbors scored high in a recent report on environmental efforts—surprising literally no one.

The maps allow us to see what the most forested places in the U.S. have in common. Zooming in on a few different examples, the first thing you’ll notice is that tree cover depends heavily on the local ...

Humankind faces unprecedented changes in climate patterns, sea-level, ocean acidity, ecosystems, and more. Learn more about the science behind these issues in the following FAQs.

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern.

Rosie is a 5th grader serving a one-year term, focusing on climate change. She was elected by other 5th graders in Oregon. Rosie also happens to be a Portlander. On Monday, we caught up with her and ...

The Portland City Council moved Thursday to reject a PGE transmission upgrade project in Forest Park that would require the ...

Some $380 million is now in limbo after reductions in the federal workforce affected staff that run a program helping ...

To make matters worse, not only is the climate making people think twice about having kids, it is also negatively impacting ...

While the idea of fungi creating zombie-like humans may sound far-fetched, real scientists have studied the connection behind fungal evolution and climate change and the threats fungi can pose to ...

Here in Oregon, 19 of 36 counties have diesel pollution high enough to increase your lifetime risk for cancer. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Clean, quiet, zero-emission trucks are hitting the ...