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PFAS chemicals have unexpectedly turned up in well water in rural farmland, far from any industrial areas, airports, or military bases.
After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling questions about their health.
Hundreds of imperiled species, including North Atlantic right whales and rusty patched bumble bees, could face greater threats from industry and development.
To make crops resilient to climate change, scientists are exposing seeds to cosmic radiation, extreme temperatures, and low gravity.
Trump-supporting states are driving the solar boom even as Republican policies complicate its future.
The technology could help create an early-warning system for changes in ice stability.
Researchers say that the rainforest is at risk of losing the equivalent of about 2 million soccer fields over the next 10 years.
The Save Our Bacon bill would make it harder for consumers to know how their meat was raised.
“It seems like they have largely adopted the positions of the chemical industry.”
