Environment & Health

The growing organic market presents a temptation for the industry to lower costs and lower standards.

Energy officials are cutting their estimate of how much oil can be drawn out of California's massive Monterey Shale formation by 96 percent.

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

To make the switch to green energy, our nation will have to embrace new ideas and technology. Thankfully, people like Julie and Scott Brusaw have been thinking green for …

Lyme disease victims from around the US will unite at the Infectious Diseases Society of America headquarters for the 2014 Mayday Project protest.

This story pulls together the diverse/niche topics of running, fermented food consumption, and the possibility that fast food outlets are poisoning American kids in harmful ways yet undisclosed.

Juanita Young talks about the death of her son, Malcolm Ferguson, a 23-year old man murdered by NYPD officer Louis Rivera.

The increasing popularity of French economist Thomas Piketty's book points to how Democrats hope to make inequality a political issue in November elections.

A majority of the Senate voted to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour recently, yet the bill failed to clear the 60 vote hurdle necessary for passage, …

Bill Moyers talks with a scientist who has sounded the alarm about the dangers of climate change for decades.