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Miners and their advocates worry that DOGE's cuts to the Mine Safety and Health Administration will put them at risk.
Federal investigators found that Alabama neglected a Black community's sewage and sanitation needs — then punished them for the results.
New documents show how they promoted it anyway.
A new state law threatens massive fines for releasing air quality data, inviting a First Amendment showdown with community organizations.
Procedural hurdles once again foil progress on a global agreement to end plastic pollution.
A toxic grass that threatens a quarter of U.S. cows is spreading. Can it be stopped?
Rising temperatures are rewriting the earliest stages of life, according to a new report.
Now they're turning to the UN for help.
A 62-mile-long curtain moored to the Amundsen Sea bed in Antarctica could prevent catastrophic flooding elsewhere, scientists say.