Environment

Climate change and environmental degradation don’t affect all Americans equally. Extreme heat, flooding, drought, and other consequences of our warming planet tend to hit low-income and nonwhite communities hardest. And...

On April 20, 2010, an explosion at the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig released over 130 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It was the biggest...

The U.S. needs to repair the environmental damage that the Trump administration has wrought, both within the country and across the worldBox Death Hollow Wilderness, Colorado Plateau. Credit: Witold Skrypczak Getty...

Samsung is trolling Apple on social media for removing the power adapter from the iPhone retail box. Last week at the iPhone 12 reveal, Apple announced the box of the...

Well that, as Ron Burgundy would say, escalated quickly. China's foreign ministry is accusing the Trump administration of "major retrogression" on climate and being an environmental "troublemaker."Why it matters: China's...

Media reports out of Japan suggest that the government is poised to announce a plan to flush the radioactive water used to cool the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant back...

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was a Saturday night in September when 160 or so...

This year, Cornell University released three new apple varieties: the scab-resistant Cordera, the crisp and mild Pink Luster, and the complexly flavored Firecracker. Collectively, they're a culmination of decades of...

Oct. 16 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump reversed course Friday and approved hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency aid for the state of California for recent wildfires that have...

Images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show dunes on Mars that have been fossilized and frozen in time. The dunes are likely the same as they were roughly one billion...