Environment

Australia has been involved in nuclear power politics since the 1940s as both a weapons test site and a source of base fuel uranium.

To respond effectively to the threat of climate change, we must shed our complacency and arouse a sense of urgency. The texts of early Buddhism provide us with a …

Around the world, scientists have gathered mounting evidence that city lights are altering the basic physiology of urban birds, suppressing their estrogen and testosterone and changing their singing, mating …

Warming oceans and earlier thaws are driving away the seabirds' prey, unleashing deadly, unseasonal storms and knocking tight breeding schedules off-kilter.

Climate change and defense spending are not mutually exclusive.

Hong Kong is facing its biggest political unrest in decades as tens of thousands of protesters defy a police crackdown to demand greater freedom from China.

The more wealth concentrates, the greater the strain on our biosphere. Top environmentalists get that connection. Now our societies must.

Author Mark Schapiro explains how climate change is affecting the cost of everything, but the wrong people are paying the price.

The dominant story of the US mass media, “doom-sayers versus deniers,” is far too narrow to reflect the true complexity of the political landscape.

As climate change continues to rear its ugly head, our planet will lose more and more species.