The rare window to ask tough questions opens after a disaster. Too often, it closes before accurate answers can emerge.

As the U.N. body faces an American threat to its jurisdiction over deep-sea mining, diplomats have more or less left all the ...

The draft of the treaty that negotiators began working on last week mentioned human rights at least twice. But the text ...

New maps show that where animal feeding operations exist, higher percentages of Latino and uninsured residents also live.

Over 3.5 million acres of federal waters are no longer eligible for offshore wind development following an order from the ...

Extreme heat, malnutrition linked to crop failures, and air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels are driving ...

Community groups, businesses, and consumers say projects face an uncertain future after Republicans slashed renewable energy ...

As federal programs are frozen or eliminated, Indigenous communities are seeking new ways to fund and finish urgently needed ...

Replacing conventional boilers with heat pumps could also avoid 33 million asthma attacks by 2050, thanks to improved air ...

The Transportation Department says states can reapply for funding under the Biden-era program it had halted. Groups fighting the freeze in court decry the delay.

A Native Hawaiian mother’s fight to keep her family in Lāhainā despite soaring costs, mortgage limbo, and land-hungry ...

Scientists are exploring whether encouraging phytoplankton growth could sequester atmospheric carbon without harming oceanic ...