The United States’ former climate envoy spoke candidly about his time in the role and what he projects for the country’s climate future.

Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland?

Around the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy tundra is thawing. Indeed, scientific studies have now recorded "regime shifts"...

Climate change threatens to deliver a "truly terrifying" dystopian future of hunger and suffering, the United Nations' human rights chief warned Monday.

If there is one lesson to be learned from yesterday’s Dobbs hearing, it is that the Supreme Court will gut abortion rights, one way or another.

If the president truly wants to protect reproductive rights, he’s going to have to do what he’s so far refused even to consider: expand the Supreme Court.

A group of activists and legal experts are promoting the argument that fossil fuel companies should be charged for homicide and other crimes for their roles in driving climate harms.

“If people don’t know that their farms are contaminated it’s because they haven’t looked.”

If anything is going to incite our conviction to say “no more” to politeness, it might as well be living through an actual plague.

Recommendations include heat forecasts and outdoor-worker safeguards to prevent thousands of deaths and injuries

In America after the end of Roe v. Wade, one brave source, on the record, is often the best we are going to get. Countless other stories will never be told.

A single number can’t capture extreme heat.

Residents in the small town of Granbury are raising alarms over noise from a local Bitcoin mine, while state lawmakers warn that the energy-hungry facilities risk “crashing” the electrical grid.

Dramatically unequal consumption lies at the heart of the climate crisis.

Commentary: If the Supreme Court upholds Mississippi's abortion ban, it will effectively overturn Roe v. Wade.

"There is a concern that we won't ever have the volumes we had in the past in the future."

It’s believed to be the first known case.

For many sexual trauma survivors, pelvic exams can feel intrusive and be triggering or re-traumatizing.

Food shortages will make grocery shopping more expensive and less fun.

Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds

A small study with big implications.

The reality of criminalized abortion is going to shock people.

Scientists say discovery may be linked to decades-long decline in sperm counts in men around the world

Investor returns imply that the welfare of future human beings is close to irrelevant

Author Paolo Bacigalupi imagined a horrible future in which water management goes wrong in the West nearly 10 years ago in “The Water Knife.”

Yes, racism and sexism--and a health care industry that's "very resistant to change."

Dr. Anthony Fauci said about 10,000 pregnant women have been vaccinated in the US since the FDA authorized two vaccines and so far, 'no red flags.'

Property owners dumped 15,000 tons of sand in a Massachusetts town to fend off dangerous tides, but it was swept away in 72 hours

In medical terms, the definition is clear. But when disputes arise, opponents argue that not every termination is an abortion.

Despite recent investments in adaptation, the U.S. remains woefully unprepared for the coming extreme storms and floods.

High temperatures in Mexico have been linked to dozens and perhaps hundreds of deaths of howler monkeys

Americans are obsessing over protein and forgetting about fiber.

There was a time when Anthony Fauci thought he would retire when the Covid-19 pandemic was over. That, he admits now, may never happen. But this December, he announced this week, will have to be good...

On the heels of a Biden administration announcement that temporarily allows telehealth abortion, a new, first-of-its-kind telehealth service, Abortion on Demand, opens to help women get care.

Women and gender-diverse people bear the brunt of climate change’s negative affects. If Australia wants to be taken seriously on climate action, this needs addressing.

A coastal scientist explains why marshes, mangroves and other wetlands can’t keep up with the effects of climate change, and how human infrastructure is making it harder for them to survive.

This year is certain to be the warmest on record globally, but next year may eclipse it.

An Arctic-wide survey has found that the permafrost region is emitting more carbon into the atmosphere than it absorbs, causing the planet to heat even further

Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

Susan Fowler describes what happened after her story went viral

Women and pregnant people are missing from high-quality research that informs nutrient reference values.

Scientific Reports - Global impacts of heat and water stress on food production and severe food insecurity

The new science of "exposomics" shows how air pollution contributes to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, bipolar disorder and other brain diseases

Guterres will be "blunt" in his brief remarks at the White House on Friday.

Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists

An environmental lawyer’s frightening report from on the ground in Lahore: animals crumpling, waters rising, crops collapsing, an economy on the brink and millions displaced with nowhere safe to go.

How the pandemic is disproportionately disrupting mothers’ careers.

U.S. farms are covered in plastic, from the sides of greenhouses to plastic mulch, hoop houses, irrigation tubes, and more. As it degrades, plastic accumulates in soil and in plants, with potential...

Heavy rain likely to cause low yields in Britain and other parts of Europe, with drought in Morocco hitting imports

A survey of more than 80,000 physicians estimated that women make 25 percent less than men over a 40-year career.

Extreme heat is the engine of planetary chaos. We ignore it at our peril.

And she called for the money to be sent directly to the world's most climate-vulnerable people.

Glyphosate found in samples from French infertility clinic raising questions about controversial chemical’s impact on fertility

State abortion bans carry narrow but sometimes vague exceptions, and years of prison time. That’s forcing doctors to think like lawyers, and hospitals to create new protocols.