New Yorkers can now get fined for not separating their food scraps. Some critics say that's not the right approach.

The dispute between two Los Angeles-area districts raises a broader question of what a school district owes its neighbors ...

President Donald Trump continues dismantling climate policy with a move of questionable legality that benefits fossil fuels. States are sure to sue.

The Agriculture Department is opening more than 112 million acres of federal forests to logging in a misguided bid to prevent fires and boost timber production.

Last month, France’s national railway operator released a glimpse of the designs for its upcoming fifth-generation high-speed ...

The change may speed up flood recovery, but it will leave communities — and taxpayers — facing the same problems over and ...

Shifting political and regulatory winds have led to fewer shareholder resolutions on environmental and social issues.

For 12 years, scientists thought they knew how much extreme heat human bodies could cope with. New research shows how wrong ...

Thorn forest once blanketed the Rio Grande Valley. Restoring even a little of it could help the region cope with the impacts ...

The U.S. has used tariffs to protect industry since 1789. That approach decimated American shipbuilding and could do the same ...

At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

After mass firings and rehiring, thousands of federal employees are bracing for deeper cuts — just as wildfires and floods ...