For decades Ohio made policies to favor fossil fuels over renewable sources like wind and solar. That's caused impacts to health and the environment. We explore in part two of WOSU's State of Energy series.

Another time a powerful, slow-moving storm wreaked havoc on a community was with Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Project ACORN, a federal urban forestry, initiative is still underway throughout Akron, even amid nationwide concerns of funding rollbacks for climate projects.

Park levies will be on ballots in Ashland, Geauga, Lake and Medina counties in November, as are more than a dozen municipal park levies expected across the region.

Forecasters say Melissa will unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and widespread damage in Jamaica. At Category 5, the system would be the strongest hurricane to hit the island since record-keeping began in 1851.

The 2025 Acorn Mast survey, conducted by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, finds an average of 72% of red oaks and 56% of white oaks on 20 wildlife areas across the state bore fruit this year.

Fewer employees, reduced Superfund site cleanup and truncated regulation enforcement are some of the ways the U.S. EPA is keeping afloat during the lapse in federal funds.

The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation's most sensitive wilderness areas.

Lake effect precipitation occurs when cold air passes over warm bodies of water, like Lake Erie. Forecasters say the rain is not necessarily a sign of what's to come.

The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed this week by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, which said the mosquitoes likely arrived by freight.