Linn’s reimagined "petrofuture" maps, reworked from those issued by oil companies to encourage profligate car use, show what ...

Kate Burgess, who tracks state legislation to protect land for the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, said that while Maryland was the first state to reach the 30 percent goal, Vermont has ...

The 100th meridian marks a dividing line between moist climates to the east and arid climates to the west. Climatologists now ...

Amid the ruins of the rules-based global trading system that lasted for 80 years, Donald Trump has bet ... and push up consumer prices by a mere 0.1 per cent this year. That’s because the ...

Originally filed eight years ago, the maps haven’t been updated as a whole. Instead, the utilities voluntarily file piecemeal updates to mark areas as at risk for fire, or no longer at risk ...

ST. LOUIS – The Saint Louis Zoo is mourning the loss of Othello, a beloved full-sized tortoise who was at least 100 years old at the time of his passing. Zoo officials say Othello was humanely ...

It had required federal agencies to evaluate the impact of climate change on future flood risk and weather patterns to determine whether 500- and 100-year flood plains could shift and, if so ...

Brain teasers come in all shapes and sizes. Some challenge your logic, others test your maths skills, while a few stretch your memory to its limits. And then, there are optical illusions – the ...

Mike Wolanin | The Republic Columbus police Lt. Skylar Berry instructs a truck driver they need to make a u-turn to access the southbound ramp for I-65 at the State Road 46 interchange in Columbus ...

(Mark Schiefelbein/AP) President Donald Trump this week unveiled plans for a $1 trillion defense budget next year, a massive increase that he claimed will provide the country with unmatched ...

Weather forecasters sometimes warn of storms that unleash rains so unusual they are described as 100-year or even ... chance that a flood of a specific magnitude will happen. A 500-year flood means ...

The results were striking. Once people were shown flood risk maps, their preferences changed decisively—away from scenic seafront properties and towards locations that were inland and considered ...