There’s been some interesting research by Dr. Kelcie Ralph at Rutgers around children who grow up without a driving caregiver. As adults, they have lower earnings and lower education attainment levels ...

Neff says the animals suffered enormous stress during the event, but most are recovering. They’re unlikely to return to the communities they came from. As shelters reopened after the storm, many ...

After Citizens United, outside spending from the fossil fuel industry was pumped into politics like never before, rising from $2 million to over $150 million over the course of just four presidential ...

And some scientists say bamboo could also help reduce climate change. As bamboo grows, it quickly absorbs a lot of planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Then if people use the bamboo to ...

One key story to watch starting in 2025: If the new U.S. leadership shrinks away from climate policies at a time when the rest of the world is rapidly shifting toward a green economy powered by clean ...

Three years ago, an office building and jail in Martinez, California, were demolished to make way for a new county building and plaza, which opened last year. But vestiges of the old buildings remain.

A federal law includes funding for wildlife over- or underpasses, making it easier for them to escape wildfires and other extreme events.

The year included travails that were intensified by human-caused climate change and tackled with resilience and determination ...

The author with her children. (Photo credit: Courtesy of Neha Pathak. Image of gift: Ravi Shah / CC BY-NC 2.0. Illustration: Samantha Harrington) ...

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At supermarkets, fridges, freezers, and cooling cases connected by miles of piping help keep food fresh. Skilled technicians keep those systems running smoothly. And those workers can play a critical ...

Detail from Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" (1888) (Image credit: National Gallery, London / public domain) What connects an iconic 19th-century painter with a contemporary photographer? A shared ...