Tom Pelton

The Chesapeake Bay is full of history that is slipping away before our eyes.

One environmental advocate has a unique way of bringing attention to the topic: hip hop music.

Tom reflects on his relationship with a dear friend - an old rowboat.

Can we engineer Earth's atmosphere to stop global warming?

In a shallow bay of the Potomac River about an hour south of Washington, D.C., lie the remains of 214 wooden cargo ships from World War I, some of which have sprouted trees and become islands.

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate passed an infrastructure bill that includes $7.5 billion for the construction of electric vehicle charging stations across the U.S. as a step toward combating climate change.

There is a growing movement to measure the worth of nature by quantifying its economic value. Trees, for example, provide billions of dollars in "ecosystem services" by producing oxygen for humans and absorbing our carbon dioxide pollution. What, then, is the value of fireflies?

It’s been a summer of record-breaking heat, wildfires, floods. So people can’t avoid thinking about climate change.

Temperatures in the Pacific Northwest got so hot in June – hitting a record 121 degrees in British Columbia – that hundreds of people died and more than a billion clams and mussels cooked in their shells.

Matt Fitzpatrick, an ecologist and associate professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science discovered that our future is … Mississippi.