Environment

Many advocates of wind energy emphasize its importance for sustainable development. However, critics note that the social, cultural and economic costs of the communities that receive these projects are …

Tea party Republicans are now the only group of Americans collectively who think the Earth is not warming, based on a 2013 poll by the Pew Research Center.

What prevents successes in mice from becoming human cures and treatments?

The next four months are going to determine the future of the Internet. Will it remain free and open with equal access to all?

A call to awaken our nation to the suicidal course we are following offers some suggestions on protecting our environment - and reviving our democracy.

Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present.

Even highly diluted levels of fracking wastewater could have a deadly effect on mayflies, the fragilely beautiful insect long-considered a key indicator of stream health.

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson chose not to believe Americans were condemned to “soulless wealth” and elucidated a new version of American exceptionalism, “The Great Society.”

Keep your eye on Russia pivoting to Asia, China pivoting across the world, and Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa hard at work trying to bring about the …

Why don't we make our means-tested system of rationing more rational, and, like other wealthy countries, base it on medical need rather than financial means?