Pollution

While a drought-striken LA county scrambles to clean up chemicals, a report finds illegal wells have tainted aquifers.

As an industrial revolution booms in Chile, the country's air has been flooded by toxic emissions.

Advocates say government agencies consistently ignore environmental health factors when racing to build prisons.

EPA rules limiting toxic air pollution emissions would have prevented thousands of cases of asthma, birth defects and other health problems.

Humans are both the cause and at risk of annihilation in the Earth's sixth mass extinction event.

If the planet is to avoid large increases in global warming, massive actions never before accomplished by humankind will be necessary.

As human-caused climate disruption progresses, sea level rise is happening far faster than previously expected.

Hydraulic fracturing wells and the pollution from them are more likely to impact poor communities in Pennsylvania.

Earlier tallies may have underestimated the amounts of chemicals released into US communities.

Fracking Fluids Dumped into Stream for Livestock on Wind River Reservation