Environment & Health

Every year, the government recalculates how much money a metric ton of carbon costs us.

A pastor, a mother, and an attorney teamed up to reveal the lies about their drinking water.

A new amendment to the 1944 water treaty between Mexico and the United States aims to create a fair, cooperative system for restoring the Colorado River.

California's cap-and-trade system, which has been touted as a model for reducing greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, allows timber companies to clear-cut forests.

The answer may lie in a sequence of jumping DNA used to engineer the virus's mosquito vector.

Flint's water crisis is a reminder that infrastructure we often take for granted has vulnerabilities.

How small farmers around the world are protecting their indigenous seeds, promoting agroecology over industrial farming and declaring their rights.

Congress is holding its first hearing today on lead poisoning in the water supply of Flint, Michigan.

Emails show arrangements to cloak pro-GMO messaging within a veil of independent expertise and little (if any) public disclosure.

In today's On the News segment: Ending plastic waste would also have the added benefit of slowing climate change; Denmark has set another world record for wind power; snow …