The rare window to ask tough questions opens after a disaster. Too often, it closes before accurate answers can emerge.

Desperate for jobs, three communities embraced a bold electric vehicle promise. Now, they’re left with questions—and no jobs.

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

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

The United States is drifting ever further away from science and climate reality. So why does life seem so normal?

Extreme heat, malnutrition linked to crop failures, and air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels are driving ...

The Transportation Department says states can reapply for funding under the Biden-era program it had halted. Groups fighting the freeze in court decry the delay.

A Native Hawaiian mother’s fight to keep her family in Lāhainā despite soaring costs, mortgage limbo, and land-hungry ...

The International Seabed Authority’s war with itself As the UN body faces an American threat to its jurisdiction over deep-sea mining, diplomats have more or less left all the important ...

Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into the early hours of Friday — with no agreement on a global plastics treaty.

As countries try to find agreement on plastic pollution, creative interventions are turning heads — and turning the ...

“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 ...