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

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 ...

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 ...