Environment

A four-year-old hydraulic fracturing study by New York's Department of Environmental Conservation has broken a state record: It has drawn more public reaction than any other issue in the agency's history. …

(Photo: Daniel Valle) Gradually it's dawned on me: We humans are creatures of the mind. We perceive the world according to our core, often unacknowledged, assumptions. They determine, literally, …

(Photo: Leo Reynolds) Warsaw/Melbourne – Jenna Talackova reached the finals of Miss Universe Canada last month, before being disqualified because she was not a “natural born” female. The tall, …

Support Truthout’s work by making a tax-deductible donation: click here to contribute. (Photo: DVIDSHUB / Flickr)Gulf Coast residents and clean up workers have found chemicals present in BP's oil …

On a recent front page of The Salt Lake Tribune, a frightening, oversized headline read, “Highest rate in the nation, 1 in 32 Utah boys has autism.” Less well …

Ali Alhimidi (Far right), the 14-year-old son of 32-year Shaima Alawadi, with three friends at a March 30 vigil for his mother who was murdered in her home in …

On April 20, 2010, a reckless attitude toward the safety of the Gulf Coast by BP, as well as Transocean and Halliburton, caused a well to blow out 5,000 …

Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause. New Orleans, Louisiana - "The fishermen have never seen anything …

Wading into a decade-old controversy, former Environmental Protection Agency chief Christine Todd Whitman has urged current EPA administrator Lisa Jackson to close loopholes in a 2006 chemical security law “before a …

Mark Ruffalo and his organization Water Defense released the first video of their new campaign Natural Gas Exxposed, a video series which documents the gas industry's assault on American …