Changes in US government support for electric vehicles have led to a buying bonanza—and a darker long-term future for the US auto industry.

Rising temperatures and chronically broken cooling systems are turning the lunch rush into a deadly risk for some workers.

The city’s $14 billion flood system faces new threats from climate change, land subsidence, and Trump budget cuts.

The Department of the Interior, or DOI, has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, ...

"We buy homes" companies are procuring disaster-damaged properties for cheap. Survivors say they're taking advantage of tragedy.

A judge sided with the Miccosukee Tribe and said the ICE detention center must close. Florida officials have already appealed ...

The U.S. discards vast quantities of critical minerals in mine waste each year - including enough lithium to power 10 million ...

Ramirez lives in a home on Chicago’s Southeast Side that’s serviced by a lead water pipe, a toxic relic found in most old homes in the city and many across the country. Exposure to lead can cause ...

Those on the “not a crisis” side (which included Jurassic Park author and nonscientist Michael Crichton) argued that much of ...

For about two decades, Americans for Prosperity, the conservative political network, has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into stalling climate action nationwide. Founded by Charles and David ...

At low tide on Tybee Island, Georgia, the beach stretches out as wide as it gets with the small waves breaking far away ...

Two decades after Katrina, scientists can more easily quantify how global warming is intensifying hurricanes - and how it shaped past storms.