Environment

A Pennsylvania gas company offers residents cash to buy protection from any claims of harm.

The US has imperial ambitions, but an independent culture resists our full participation as citizens of a nation and of a world that is integrated economically and environmentally.

As we celebrate the nation's birthday, let us all take a moment to say goodbye to some beloved members of the American family. Many national landmarks could soon disappear …

The modern agricultural system is responsible for putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the actual burning of fossil fuels.

Sweden's new archbishop is among those calling for scientists, politicians, cultural icons and religious leaders to work in concert to address climate change.

Individual fracking bans alone are not enough to protect communities.

In 2002, San Francisco made a promise that it intends to keep: by 2020 the city will eliminate all waste that is neither recycled nor composted.

The Obama administration says it detained more than 50,000 unaccompanied minors trying to cross the border in the first half of this year.

Author Todd Miller discusses how defense contractors look to cash in on President Obama's expected $2 billion proposal in additional funding for border security.

The bodies of three Israeli teenagers who disappeared more than two weeks ago were found in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.