Environment & Energy

Peninsula currently runs on septic systems, which Ohio Environmental Protection Agency officials say are leaking E. Coli into the Cuyahoga River.

Christmas tree farms across Ohio are still catching up to an increase in demand fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, which could mean more of a challenge when it comes to finding that perfect tree in 2023.

Pollution, caused by abandoned mines, is hurting Ohio’s small streams. A local nonprofit is combining science and art to solve the problem.

A $110 million settlement has been reached between the state and Dupont over chemical contamination in Southeast Ohio.

The United State Environmental Protection Agency hopes to begin work to remove the Gorge Dam in the spring of 2024. Park officials say the park will need to be closed for three to four years while work is being done.

"Solar grazing," where sheep mow utility-scale solar farms, is one of the best researched forms of so-called "agrivoltaics."

The De Winton's golden mole was last spotted in 1936. But with the help of a mole-sniffing dog and new environmental DNA analysis, researchers are taking it off the most wanted lost species list.

A group called the Eastern Golden Eagle Working Group has released a series of recommendations for preserving these apex predators in places like Kentucky.

Climate science shows that beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, impacts in the U.S. get substantially worse. The world is on track for almost double that level of warming by the end of the century.

The board approved the election of 11 board members to two-year terms on its revamped Community Advisory Committee with plans to select four additional members in 2024.