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The Department of Energy is focusing on aerogels to reduce the severity of lithium battery fires. A lab that creates the substance shares the technology behind it all.

For three weeks, Kilauea volcano has sent molten rock into the ocean, spewed toxic gas into the air and pushed ash plumes upward. Photographer Mario Tama has documented the destruction.

January 12 marks the anniversary of a mystery nearly two decades old. The mystery of two men disappearing under similar circumstances has now become the subject a locally-produced podcast by investigative reporter, Janine Zeitlin, and her colleagues from the Naples Daily News and The News Press.

Beloved Hollywood mountain lion P-22 was euthanized over the weekend due to health issues. His story highlights both the plight of urban wildlife and groundbreaking efforts to protect it.

Send leaders into space for perspective, tap solar power to offer electricity for all, make "dignity" a priority — those are some of the wishes readers have for 2023.

A major regional climate conference this week brought together a diverse collection of people and their ideas to work together to find a sustainable way of life in the future despite some differing beliefs how to get from here to there. Dozens of community members from environmental nonprofits, academia, community groups, and local, state, and federal governments attended the day-long Southwest Florida Climate and Community Summit in Naples.

Public lands managed by the South Florida Water Management District in Lee and Collier counties remain so dangerous more than two weeks after the wrath of Category 4 Hurricane Ian that, above or below water, the areas will be closed for the foreseeable future.

President Trump announced a one-month reprieve from import tariffs for automakers after he imposed them on Canada and Mexico. And, thousands of fired USDA workers return to work today.

Conservation groups notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Tarpon Blue Silver King I, LLC, today of their intent to file suit in federal court to protect endangered Florida panthers from a massive new development within the panthers’ occupied breeding habitat in southwest Florida.

When author and educator Carole Burns’ father Frank passed away earlier this year she found a small, simple notebook amongst his things that he’d carried with him during his time as a volunteer at the slough, where he’d led tours since 2001. She wrote an essay about finding that notebook and sent it our way, so we thought it would be a good reason to have a conversation about what the slough meant to her father, and what finding that notebook meant to her — and what the Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve has meant, and means, to so many of the people who’ve visited it over the past nearly half-century.