Environment

IMAGE: Mountain stoneflies live in streams fed by icy glacial waters. view more  Credit: Photo by Joe Giersch PULLMAN, Wash. - An endangered aquatic insect that lives in icy streams fed...

IMAGE: Metaphase chromosomes of maize after fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with probes recognizing different types of repeats (in purple, green and yellow). view more  Credit: Picture : A. Ruban and...

IMAGE: Thirty-one tree-ring sites (red dots) in the middle-upper reaches of the Yellow River (YR). Thick blue line denotes the YR, while the thin blue lines denote the large tributaries the......

IMAGE: Researchers at Linköping University's Department of Thematic Studies, Environmental Change, have developed a simple logger for greenhouse gas flows. It is built using inexpensive and easily available parts, and provides......

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its final environmental impact statement on Friday which found gold and copper mining in Alaska “would not be expected to have a measurable...

Hearst has named Debi Chirichella as the interim president of Hearst Magazines following the resignation of Troy Young, it was announced Friday. Chirichella, who most recently was the executive vice...

Monks at Thailand's Chak Daeng Temple have expanded a plastic recycling program to help fight coronavirus and reduce the pandemic's environmental impact. NBC News' Larissa Johnsson reports.July 25, 2020

The House passed its first batch of appropriations bills Friday after a truncated process with big batches of en bloc amendment votes, foreshadowing a similar whirlwind of activity on the floor next...

Bribing one politician is bad. Bribing all the politicians is worse. The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating a group of companies in Kurdistan, Iraq’s semi-independent northern region, that appears...

Washington, D.C., has become the latest major city to require masks outside the home. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the executive order on Wednesday; it will last for at least the...