The U.S. discards vast quantities of critical minerals in mine waste each year - including enough lithium to power 10 million ...

The Department of the Interior, or DOI, has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C. as “the department of everything else” — public lands, natural ...

Can urban design actually motivate people to walk more? New data says yes - people in walkable cities get about 20 percent ...

They brought in their big heavy equipment and started coming up Little River to remove debris,” Huggins said. The workers, ...

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 ...

Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into ...

The United States is drifting ever further away from science and climate reality. So why does life seem so normal?

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

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

The boom in AI and data centers is driving Indigenous communities to defend their land, resources, and cultural knowledge ...

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