Environment & Health

Bill McKibben narrates a documentary looking at the beautiful and vital role honey bees play in preserving life.

Economist Gerald Epstein: New FT investigation says big commodity traders earned more profit than banks or auto.

Climate writer and professor Patrick Bond: Carbon markets are now at junk bond status but US sabotages all attempts at binding emission targets.

The Dirtiest Oil on Earth features animated run-down on dangers of tar sands crude and pipelines that transport it.

Nicole Tichon and Gan Golan: By projecting a Tax Evader video game on the side of banks and big corporate buildings, actions aim to focus public attention on banks …

The California Nurses Association has already raised concerns about the ‘doc bots’ that are showing up in some California hospitals.

There's a growing movement, led by survivors of ex-gay therapy, to disprove and ban these harmful practices for good.

Amira Hass, the only Jewish-Israeli journalist to have spent almost 20 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank, recently suffered a torrent of hate mail …

So-called ‘ag-gag’ bills that criminalize undercover filming on farms and at slaughterhouses to document criminal animal abuse are sweeping the country.

Efforts by lawmakers and regulators to force the federal government to better police the natural gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing.