New data show that local governments are inking increasingly ambitious deals for solar projects on capped brownfield sites.

Last year, Brandi Howse’s annual mammogram returned a grim diagnosis: Stage 3 breast cancer. To save her life, she had her breasts removed, then her ovaries. She’s free of the disease now and ...

Landfills across America are releasing far more methane, a potent planet-warming gas, than we previously thought. A study published in the journal Science found that our nation's dumps are releasing ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Underground fires and methane leaks at California landfills have prompted thousands of complaints from nearby ...

SOBRADO, Portugal (Reuters) - Conceicao Gaspar looks out from her house on a lush green landscape but the Portuguese pensioner cannot enjoy the view because she knows the trees conceal an open-air ...

Remember the banana peels, apple cores, and leftover pizza you recently threw in the garbage? Today, your food waste—and your neighbors’—is emitting climate-warming greenhouse gases as it decomposes ...

A vast canyon of buried garbage has been smoldering inside a landfill in the Santa Clarita Valley, inducing geysers of liquid waste onto the surface and noxious fumes into the air. In the Inland ...

After Baltimore doubled its tipping fee, deliveries to Quarantine Road plunged — and the budget is feeling it.