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Climate change is slowing down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a key ocean “conveyer belt.” New research finds it could collapse completely by 2060.
The aim is to draw key minerals, including lithium and magnesium, from ocean water, desalination plant residue, and industrial waste brine.
A century after the events of "Killers of the Flower Moon," abandoned oil wells litter the Osage Nation.
Many states with abortion bans are experiencing broiling summers — and the heat could damage supplies such as emergency contraception and condoms.
Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price.
The Justice Department is suing a major petrochemical company, arguing that its chemical plant in Reserve, Louisiana, poses an unacceptable risk to the health and welfare of the area’s majority-Black population.
"Sustainability is an empty word if you don't respect and implement Indigenous rights here in our homelands."
The climate law is lowering the cost of solar and wind, but Paris Agreement goals are still out of reach.
With Alaska's wildlife numbers declining, agencies are blaming — and culling — predators. The true threat is much more complex.
