diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7938fd0d6..33083d050 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- Only report errors from the `"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource".Environment` function when they are not `nil`. (#1850, #1851)
+
 ### Security
 
 ## [0.20.0] - 2021-04-23
diff --git a/sdk/resource/resource.go b/sdk/resource/resource.go
index 2e5d10151..3d056b56b 100644
--- a/sdk/resource/resource.go
+++ b/sdk/resource/resource.go
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ func Default() *Resource {
 func Environment() *Resource {
 	detector := &FromEnv{}
 	resource, err := detector.Detect(context.Background())
-	if err == nil {
+	if err != nil {
 		otel.Handle(err)
 	}
 	return resource