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Natalie Dixon, a Master of Environmental Management student, spent the summer as a surfonomics intern with the Surf Conservation Partnership.

Driving through the Wyoming sagebrush west of Cheyenne, the clouds of dust rising from the road give way to giant plumes of steam shooting into the warming sky. This is the Jim Bridger power plant, one of the largest coal-fired power sources in the nation and an enormous emitter of carbon dioxide pollution.

Environmental experts from ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ on Wednesday discussed the threat that flooding during hurricane season poses to land and water.

Malkie Wall, a Master of Environmental Management student, spent her summer as an Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corps Fellow at Boston Scientific.

Mixing toxic coal ash into acid mine drainage may sound like an odd recipe for an environmental solution, but a new ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½-led study finds that it can neutralize the drainage’s dangerously low pH and help reduce harmful impacts on downstream ecosystems—if you use the right type of ash. Using the wrong type of ash can create new contamination and not tame the drainage’s extreme acidity.

The auto industry’s push to get more electric vehicles on the road became a lot more urgent last week when the nation’s most populous state instituted new environmental rules to phase out the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035.

Good weather held back US climate action for decades. Responding to extreme events now requires a grasp of what’s politically possible.

Rewetting and restoring 250,000 acres of southern pocosin peatlands that had been drained for farming but now lie fallow could prevent 4.3 million tons of climate-warming carbon dioxide, now stored in their soils, from oxidizing and escaping back into Earth’s atmosphere each year, a ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ study shows. That amount equals 2.4% of the total annual reductions in CO2 emissions needed for the United States to be carbon neutral by 2050.

Climate change is causing hurricane-related flooding to increase — along with the cost to recover from these storms — and communities should prepare now. That’s what two researchers recommended during a recent ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½-hosted media briefing on hurricane preparedness and impacts.