At what point does our energy crisis become an infrastructure crisis?

While Boston baked and Chicago chilled, the South got the bulk of the winter’s first lowland snow. A “kink” in the jet stream pushed cold air into a southern trough that collided with moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. The result was the...

The underlying question behind a growing number of probes into the so-called climategate emails is simple, but vexing: Did politics — especially a quest to eliminate uncertainty from findings that indicate man’s role in global warming — creep into...

This week the price quotes arrived from three different companies to insulate Sheep Dog Hollow, the hundred-year-old farmhouse we’re renovating — and did we get a surprise. From all I was told when the contractors came to visit, I expected the hybrid...

The Great Lakes are under threat from the Asian carp, an invasive species of fish whose presence is pitting neighboring states against Illinois in a showdown with no clear resolution. Nearly 200,000 pounds of fish were deliberately poisoned Wednesday...

Beneath the sparkling waters of Resurrection Bay, where rich runs of salmon support thriving commercial fish harvests and humpback whales can be seen breaching just offshore in summertime, Jeremy Mathis sees signs of the way greenhouse gases are...