The Department of the Interior, or DOI, has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C. as “the department of everything else” — public lands, natural ...

Can urban design actually motivate people to walk more? New data says yes - people in walkable cities get about 20 percent ...

They brought in their big heavy equipment and started coming up Little River to remove debris,” Huggins said. The workers, ...

The United States is drifting ever further away from science and climate reality. So why does life seem so normal?

The draft of the treaty that negotiators began working on last week mentioned human rights at least twice. But the text ...

Despite strong evidence that plastics are harmful to people, oil-producing countries oppose action on human health.

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Scientists are exploring whether encouraging phytoplankton growth could sequester atmospheric carbon without harming oceanic ...

Two days after wildfires broke out in Los Angeles last January, tech founder Edward Kushins and real estate agent Willie ...

As the U.N. body faces an American threat to its jurisdiction over deep-sea mining, diplomats have more or less left all the ...

The boom in AI and data centers is driving Indigenous communities to defend their land, resources, and cultural knowledge ...

As federal programs are frozen or eliminated, Indigenous communities are seeking new ways to fund and finish urgently needed ...