A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the country’s largest lobbying group for the plastics industry.

After wildfires devastated the island, homelessness spiked. Advocates fear L.A. could face a similar fate without strong ...

Simmering urban temperatures are bad for humans. It's another story for rats, according to new research -- especially in ...

Michigan wants to restart a nuclear power plant it had shut down, but the bumpy early days of the Trump presidency spook ...

Oil companies cheered Trump’s recent calls for a more streamlined process and a series of energy-related executive orders he ...

Tourism, climate goals, and animal rights concerns are sparking a plant-based renaissance in a country famous for sushi and ...

But experts say there may be a number of opportunities for lab-grown meat under a second Trump administration. Industry ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years — and pinpoints why.

As climate change complicates growing the region’s historically emblematic crops, like olives and lemons, Amata is seeing ...

State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive ...

President Trump's executive orders on California water will help irrigate Central Valley farms. They won’t do anything to ...