Environment

President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders reversing key Donald Trump policies on climate change and the global coronavirus response, and is likely to overturn a ban on...

Cutting air pollution could prevent 50,000 premature deaths each year in Europe, a Lancet study has found. The study, the first ever to estimate premature deaths due to fine particulate...

Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene is a collection of work by 40 photojournalists from around the world, documenting the lives of animals used for research, entertainment and food. “The animals...

WASHINGTON — In a last-minute slap at President Donald Trump, a federal appeals court struck down one of his administration’s most momentous climate rollbacks on Tuesday, saying officials acted illegally...

Around half of the habitable land on the planet is now used for agriculture. A millennium ago—or more recently, in the case of many countries—it was mostly wilderness. Soon, technology...

It’s a fine, crisp day and the first frost of the season, a significant occasion for any gardener and one that has not gone unnoticed by the seed guardians of...

President-elect Joe Biden plans to rescind a cross-border permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline on his first day in office, according to multiple reports. The move could sound a...

Indigenous reindeer herders are bringing a legal action against a proposed wind power project that would be one of the largest in Norway. The Sámi herders from Nordland county are...

In 2008, Melkon Khosrovian had been successfully making spirits for about four years when he hit a roadblock. He and his wife had transitioned from amateur home infusers to bonafide...

FLINT, Mich. — When a former Michigan public health director was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the Flint water crisis, the man who previously held the job says a chilling...