Environment

New research has concluded that salty, mineral-rich fluids deep beneath Pennsylvania's natural gas fields are likely seeping upward thousands of feet into drinking water supplies.

Before any problem can be fixed it must first be acknowledged. The jobs crisis stays in the shadows, out of mind, and consequently unaddressed. This is allowed to happen …

Cultures that endure carve out a protected space for those who question and challenge national myths.

How a World-Ending Weapon Disappeared From Our Lives, But Not Our World

The rush to drill for unconventional gas, enabled by a process popularly known as

The Secretary of Agriculture would be required to grant a permit for the planting or cultivation of a genetically engineered crop, regardless of environmental impact.

While the national climate debate is fixed on whether Earth is warming, climate scientists are focused on understanding how bad it will be.

The Texas GOP's hidden curriculum against critical thinking and other educational threats to authoritarianism is now part of its official platform.

A Japanese parliamentary inquiry has concluded last yearu2019s nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was "a profoundly man-made disaster - that could and should have been …

Low on energy? Feeling disengaged? Thatu2019s because Republicans are depressing.