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 ...

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

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

Installing heat pumps in factories could save $1.5 trillion and 77,000 lives A new report finds that replacing conventional boilers with heat pumps could also avoid 33 million asthma attacks by ...

Despite strong evidence that plastics are harmful to people, oil-producing countries oppose action on human health.

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

“If you look at the wind and solar industry, it took decades for the cost to come down,” Aaron Bergman, a fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonprofit focused on energy and the environment, told ...