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Seattle is the first city in the nation to fine people for not properly sorting their garbage. The law took effect on Jan. 1 as a bid to keep food out of landfills and encourage composting instead.

The U.S. needs a lot more renewable energy to rein in climate change. But much of the opposition to larger solar projects is coming from local environmentalists and conservationists themselves.

A group of seniors in Mobile, Ala., wants coal ash from a power plant moved to a lined landfill. They worry the toxic ash could leak into Mobile Bay.

A group of seniors in Mobile, Ala., wants coal ash from a power plant moved to a lined landfill. They worry the toxic ash could leak into Mobile Bay. (Story aired on ATC on Sept. 4, 2023.)

Digesters convert livestock manure into electricity. Farmers can use it to power their operations or even sell some back to the grid. But some have found the technology too pricey to maintain.

Previous estimates of the climate-warming gas were based on the rough number of methane-emitting sources on the ground — such as factories, refineries, stoves, swamps, landfills and cattle herds. But by directly measuring levels of methane in the air instead, a new study puts the total much higher.

A construction crew in San Francisco recently dug-up a well-preserved chunk of the city's maritime past: A 19th-century whaling ship archeologists believe was buried and forgotten as landfill after being abandoned by fortune-seeking sailors during the Gold Rush.

Commercial fisheries in the Great Lakes hope to follow an example set in Iceland, by using nearly 100 percent of a fish in order to increase the value of each one landed while also decreasing waste.

Commercial fisheries in the Great Lakes hope to follow an example set in Iceland, by using nearly 100 percent of a fish in order to increase the value of each one landed while also decreasing waste.

One important strategy for addressing climate change is planting trees. They absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help cool the planet, but that’s not all. Even after death, trees can blunt the effects of global warming.