Environment

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

Subhankar Banerjee makes the connection between climate change and inaction on it, and other US social problems.

It's time for our elected representatives to start following the principles laid out in our Constitution and help everyday Americans struggling to make ends meet.

President Obama sounds for all the world like a used car salesman trying to peddle a lemon, and that will not happen on our watch.

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

Shell gets that unless things change quickly, another big financial market bubble will burst. It's called the “Carbon Bubble,” and it's a very simple equation.

Major discussions on income distribution vs. redistribution; Maryland cutting taxes on rich and leaving tipped workers' minimum wages at $3.63 an hour; and a final segment on criticisms of …

An indigenous activist in Honduras is attacked for campaigning against the Agua Zarca Hydroelectric Dam.

Food and feed quality are crucial to human and animal health. Surprisingly, almost no data exist in the scientific literature on herbicide residues in GMO plants, even after nearly …

There have been five great extinctions of species on Earth, all of them due to natural causes. In a gripping book, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the ongoing sixth extinction of …