Environment

The Monitor's Climate Generation series featured a host of youth-driven solutions. Our team checks back in, finding triumphs and setbacks.

Wildfires are threatening Southern California again, this time near Malibu. One college in the Santa Monica Mountains lay directly in the path of the Franklin Fire, but extensive safety plans have saved buildings from burning down and students from getting hurt.

In our progress roundup, an underwater mountain in the Southern Pacific yields new species and South Africa researchers grow fungi to fight river pollution.

After a record drought this fall, and increased wildfires, in the U.S. Northeast, people in this region are talking about better ways to prepare for threats to forests. 

The carbon-intensive U.S. construction industry is scrambling to help ease a nationwide housing shortage. Startups are trying to find climate-friendly solutions, but the challenges they face are emblematic of the barriers to industrywide change.

The Great Lakes region has been buried in snow after days of storms, yet more could be on the way with forecasters predicting another storm system to hit the area. Snow totals since Thanksgiving are nearing 6 feet in some places.

Progress roundup: New turtle moms hit the beach, a school bus fleet sends power back to the grid, and food waste is fermented into livestock feed.

Almost 100 small island nations say their existence is threatened by climate change. The largest case in its history, the top United Nations court will determine whether major polluting nations should be held responsible.

A decades-old habitat preservation effort in British Columbia, Canada, is showing positive signs for one type of orcas that live there.

Delhi's air pollution is among the worst in the world, far exceeding World Health Organization safety limits. Residents share what that feels like for them on the ground.