Environment

Birds will soon begin their fall migrations, crossing over Alabama. "Project Safe Flight" from Alabama Audubon involves making more windows bird-safe.

A Colorado-based company is proposing what could be one of the largest mining operations in Alabama, causing concerns among environmentalists.

The state now estimates that the Birmingham Northern Beltline project will cost $6.19 billion.

A new study shows the number of “dangerous humid heat days” has doubled over the past 50 years across the globe, and is up particularly in the southeastern U.S.

Though recent rain has made for a soggy end to spring, most of the season was plagued with drought. Scientists said the dry conditions helped the Cahaba lilies thrive.

In this rural Alabama community, some residents can’t flush their toilets. Developers want to build a state-of-the-art data center next door.

The lawsuit challenges Alabama Power’s plans to leave more than 21 million tons of coal ash in an unlined pond at the head of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, an area sometimes called “America’s Amazon."

Resident groups and local-government offices have sprouted across the Southeast in response to increases in extreme weather and temperatures. A focus in Birmingham is on marginalized communities.

The lawsuit, filed Monday against the Trump administration, comes on the 16th anniversary of the nation’s worst offshore oil spill.

Lawmakers failed to require formal public hearings in electric rate cases. But citizen opposition helped kill a move to end PSC elections.