This story was updated to include comment from The Data Center Coalition. The explosive growth of data centers around the country — driven in large part by the burgeoning use of artificial ...

A boy looks out over Jamaica Bay in the Edgemere neighborhood of New York City. The community, which is flanked by the Atlantic Ocean and the bay, is at growing risk of coastal flooding due to sea ...

Louisiana state leaders are mum about whether a nearly $3 billion project that’s been touted as a linchpin in the state’s coastal restoration efforts will move forward as pressure mounts from the ...

It was 2:30 in the morning on Nov. 6, 2014, when flames engulfed the New Orleans home of political consultant Mario Zervigon. Someone had lit his cars on fire, and the flames spread to his house.

Heavy flooding from Superstorm Sandy hampered relief efforts several days after the 2012 storm devastated the coastal areas of New Jersey and New York, with many residents unable to access their homes ...

Acre by acre, the village of Kipnuk is falling into the river. The small Alaskan tribal village sits on permafrost, which is thawing fast as global temperatures rise. That’s left the banks of the ...

Tom Wood near his home in Salome, Ariz, on April 22, 2025. Wood and his wife had to drill a new well after the previous one went dry. Credit: Caroline Gutman This far out, there’s no such thing as ...

It began with a lobbyist’s pitch. Tennessee Rep. Rusty Grills says a lobbyist proposed a simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings. In late March, ...

A shuttered Michigan nuclear plant is poised to start up again, buoyed by $3.1 billion in public subsidies. In Pennsylvania, tech giant Microsoft said its need for more electricity led it to strike an ...

Leaving the tight-knit community his family had called home for five generations along the Louisiana coast was one of the hardest things Chris Brunet has had to do. But three years ago, he felt he had ...

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In the early 2000s, a long-time Louisiana engineer and entrepreneur thought it would be natural for the oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico to expand into offshore wind. The industry could use ...