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Dangerous lead levels in Flint, Michigan’s drinking water and the prolonged drought in California have caused many communities to examine more closely the…

The triumph of this book is how Bathsheba Demuth pulls seemingly disparate threads together into a net of actions and consequences from which the whales, the Yupik, and our children can't escape.

The dam where former GLT staff member Liz Larson drowned Saturday is the focus of litigation against the city of Wilmington over previous deaths at the…

The Trump administration faces protests for its plan to aggressively rein in the EPA, an agency created by President Richard Nixon. But environmental protection was not always so politically divisive.

Young people in Montana won a lawsuit against the state for promoting fossil fuels, saying it violated the right to "a clean and healthful environment." This year, lawmakers passed laws trying to change that.

Unlike young children on a car ride chanting, "Are we there yet," zoo animals can’t tell you when they’re bored to tears. Some of them don’t even have tear ducts. It’s the job of zookeepers to make sure the animals in their care stay active — mentally as well as physically.

Customers across Illinois could face increased natural gas rates next year, based on proposed decisions in two proceedings before the Illinois Commerce Commission.

Industry demand for the "sustainable seafood" label, issued by the Marine Stewardship Council, is increasing. But some environmentalists fear fisheries are being certified despite evidence showing that the fish population is in trouble — or when there's not enough information to know the impact on the oceans.

The state’s Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday asked the Illinois attorney general to step in and force a mobile home park outside Heyworth to…

An Illinois Wesleyan University biologist has let the world know about a previously unknown kind of fleshbelly frog.It isn't the first new species Edgar…