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A $2.4 billion upgrade is shaving minutes off Caltrain trips through Silicon Valley, doubling weekend ridership, and reducing riders’ exposure to toxic diesel pollution.
A new fleet of battery-powered trains will test whether transit agencies can electrify without installing miles of overhead wires.
With the repeal of a rule that limited carbon emissions from power plants, the president is further delaying the phaseout of coal.
Melting glaciers spell disaster around the world. Protecting people will be a challenge for decades to come.
As a fight over voting districts consumes the Texas legislature, funding for flood relief remains elusive.
An expert on migrant farmworker health describes how this population has been blamed and put at risk, but seldom understood.
A Gallup survey finds that disaster victims are more likely to feel that the future is out of their hands.
Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.
A decade after the Paris Agreement, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton trace how we've kept on with business as usual.