Environment & Health

The big, powerful countries have been driving drunk for too long.

March through June 2014 were the hottest on record globally. While a single extreme weather event is not proof of anthropogenic climate disruption, the increasing intensity and frequency of …

Congress may be divided on the issue of climate change, but the vast majority of Americans agree that we must do more to protect our planet, and more.

Ironically, the very mechanisms of economic sanction engineered by Israeli and pro-Israel lobbies against Iran and Syria are likely increasingly to be applied to Israel itself.

The state's drought has forced farmers to rely on groundwater, even as California aquifers have been intentionally polluted due to exemptions for oil industry.

A group of five countries has launched its own development bank to challenge the US-dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Could it be that the large influx of private corporations over the past years has resulted in a new San Francisco, one that appeases the demands of these enterprises, …

Some see this crisis in one of the essential needs for human life as an opportunity for profit.

The Fair Minimum Wage Act in the House and the Minimum Wage Fairness Act in Senate would gradually raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 by 2017.

Court rejects coal industry's challenge to Obama Administration's effort to rein in mountaintop removal mining.