Environment & Health

Jaisal Noor talks to workers at Baltimore's internationally renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital as they prepare for a possible strike in order to obtain a $15 hourly wage.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its most dire warning yet about how greenhouse gases have driven up global temperatures and extreme weather, while threatening …

A new chart released by Stop Fooling California reveals that the oil industry, including the Western States Petroleum Association, Chevron, BP and other oil companies, spent $56.63 million on …

Not only are the effects of climate change already occurring on every continent, the world is ill-prepared for what is to come.

We're now on a drill, baby, drill and frack, baby, frack planet, where the prevailing state of mind is what Michael Klare calls “carbon delirium.”

Frank N. Foode is “your friendly neighborhood genetically modified organism,” who helps “make the science of biotechnology fun and approachable.”

With hundreds of programs across the US and throughout the world, some states still view distributing needles as illegal.

Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert explores the likely extinction of a massive number of species - because of the destructive practices of humans - in the book "The Sixth Extinction: An …

Though the clean up is progressing, it will take weeks to determine the extent of the ecological impact of the major Galveston oil spill.

SOIL is proud to announce that SOIL’s Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, was selected as a 2014 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year. Every year the …