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It says something about overall media coverage of a subject when some of the most important news appears in the form of corrections.

At the mouth of the Aguan river on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, a Garifuna community living in a natural paradise that was devastated 15 years ago by Hurricane …

Pharmaceutical companies have overwhelmingly agreed to new US government guidelines aimed at decreasing the use of antibiotics in the raising of livestock, new data shows.

This month, rural women, indigenous communities, and farmers in Chile found themselves on the winning end of a long-fought battle against a bill that had come to be known …

Lundy Braun's “Breathing Race into the Machine” traces the peculiar history of how 19th century research on lung capacity laid the foundation for a “scientific” framing of racial difference …

The taxes paid by corporations today are near record lows as a percentage of the United States' total tax bill, even as they are recording massive profits.

Frank N. Foode is “your friendly neighborhood genetically modified organism,” who helps “make the science of biotechnology fun and approachable.”

The drought in the West threatens that region's economic viability and the US food supply.

Why isn't the American Psychological Association pursuing ethics charges against psychologist John Leso for abuses he helped carry out at the Guantanamo prison?

Anti-terrorism measures in Iraq and hardline drug polices in Iran accounted for more than half of all reported government-sanctioned killings in 2013.