Environment

The Pettit National Ice Center announced it is embracing a sustainable future with the installation of a rooftop solar energy system in partnership with Arch Solar, a Wisconsin-based solar company.

For the first time in over a century, researchers have documented evidence of cougars reproducing in Minnesota.

The City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works is hosting its 15th annual Backyard Compost Bin Sale, featuring the Home Composter, a compost bin not available in stores.

The Colombian government previously approved a plan that would allow the culling of approximately half of the estimated 170 hippopotami roaming freely through the South American nation.

Five bald eagles were found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula over a two-week span in April, prompting concerns of poaching from wildlife managers.

Republican lawmakers announced the Fair Air Standards Act, legislation to “address Southeast Wisconsin’s non-attainment designation and federal emissions testing requirements."

Milwaukee Riverkeeper's 31st annual spring cleanup brought Earth Week to a close, and set a Guinness world record in the process on April 25.

The Wisconsin DNR has asked the public to avoid outdoor burning with fire danger considered "high" or "very high" across the entire state Thursday.

Coinciding with Earth Day, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced the addition of three new state parks in the Central Valley — pushing the statewide total to 283 parks — which he said is the biggest expansion of the park system in decades.

MPS celebrated Earth Day, showcasing the district’s new "Sustainability Action Plan: A Roadmap for Healthy and Sustainable Schools" at Morse Middle School.

Green is right there in the name, even if the meaning is different. Vermont, a state whose name is a blending of the French words for the color green and mountain, claimed the top spot in a recent analysis of the greenest states in terms of eco-friendliness.

The Department of Public Works (DPW) and Mayor Cavalier Johnson on Friday, April 17 kicked off another year of Project Clean & Green.

After Senator Tina Smith staged a protest Wednesday night to block a vote on a bill that would allow mining in the Boundary Waters, the U.S. Senate is now scheduled to vote on that bill Thursday morning.

Dozens of hippos who descended from the ones brought to Colombia by onetime drug kingpin Pablo Escobar will be killed as the South American nation looks to control its population.

One of the Antarctic’s most well-known and beloved animals is at the brink of extinction, and environmentalists are calling it a "stark warning" of the threat of climate change.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s top official told a crowd of climate science skeptics that they should celebrate the repeal of the 2009 finding that underpinned the agency’s attempts to combat climate change ever since. His comments came the same day a separate federal agency reported record-shattering warmth and precipitation numbers.