Environment

A new editorial challenges health professionals and world leaders to see biodiversity loss and climate change as “one indivisible crisis.”…

Volunteers stock hundreds of fridges with free items, bolstering access to food and cutting landfill emissions in cities from New York to Anchorage, Alaska.

For communities across the Global South, the impacts of climate change are not abstract projections but concrete realities that threaten their land and food security. The final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel…

A massive intrusion of salt water into the Mississippi River has left the tap water in several Louisiana communities unsafe to drink and could threaten the New Orleans metropolitan area.…

When the Rio Grande figures in US news reports, it’s usually in relation to stories about immigration, drug trafficking or trade. But the river is also an important water source – and it’s shrinking.

Living in an area with record-breaking heat increases perceptions that the weather is getting hotter, a study finds.

Agriculture is responsible for more than 70 percent of global freshwater withdrawals. Meanwhile one third of the world faces water stress.

The rapid and widespread adoption of ESG-focused strategy throughout the investment industry has created a strange dilemma. Having generated a $35 trillion global market, ESG advocates are in the ironic…

It might sound like science fiction, but “marine cloud brightening” is being seriously considered as a way to shield parts of the ocean from extreme heat. We’re using water cannons…

After 93,000 people were exposed to jet fuel-laced water, federal officials are finally cleaning up a leaking petroleum storage facility.

Industry groups have spent decades lobbying against life-saving extreme heat protections for outdoor workers.