Environment

Nuclear expert and researcher Joseph Mangano explains his research in connecting the increase of hyperthyroidism in newborns on the West coast to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

A court in Canada has ruled Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen can try to seize the assets of oil giant Chevron based on a 2011 decision in an Ecuadorean court …

Julia Trigg-Crawford claims that the state of Texas has no process to determine whether projects that seize landowners' property are really in the public benefit.

Even as weather extremes bedevil Caribbean farmers, Ramgopaul Roop has turned his three-acre fruit farm into a showcase for how to beat climate change.

Beneath the surface (on travel web sites), it turns out that a large part of the price difference between these two routes is not the actual payment to the …

When Davis walked into the factory, he joined one of the fastest-growing and more dangerous segments of the US labor market: blue-collar temp work.

As the Executive Secretary for the Gore-Mbeki Commission Environment Committee, I sat at the negotiating table while the newly elected government of Nelson Mandela formulated its environmental policies.

Unlike the US, Australia's system prevents the “buying” of elections and citizens are required to vote rather than being prevented from voting.

The Air Force's December 17 ICBM launch was to provide “data to ensure a safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent.” But no one can assure it will be safe, …

Why would the ALEC network of state-level lobbyists want to make solar energy cost-prohibitive for homeowners and businesses?