Between its water use, energy use, e-waste, and need for critical minerals that could better be used on renewable energy, A.I. could trash our chances of a sustainable future.

A new paper says two university research centers have essentially functioned as a P.R. arm for the meat industry.

Over 60 years since Silent Spring, the Environmental Protection Agency still can’t seem to bring itself to curtail products like Roundup or paraquat.

Republicans are ramping up their rhetoric on gray wolves while research is showing how useful these predators can be.

A sustainable food system could be worth up to $10 trillion a year. Meanwhile, Congress can’t even pass a new version of the farm bill.

We know enough about microplastics to be worried. RFK Jr. should not be the only candidate with a plan to fight them.

The Timbisha Shoshone are legally permitted to live in Death Valley National Park. But the vegetation vital to their traditions and livelihoods is dying.

Congress approved the construction of the Yazoo Pumps more than 80 years ago. They might finally be built—and disproportionately benefit white landowners.

Getting reelected would be nice, but the administration also needs to guard against the damage a second Trump administration could do to the environment. Here’s how.

The petrochemical industry is obstructing a global treaty to reduce plastic pollution.

Republican governments across America have passed anti-ESG bills, but that’s not why the investment principle has fallen out of favor.

While the U.S. sends tens of billions of dollars to Israel and Ukraine, countries in the global south are left pleading for pennies.

Construction could threaten plans to recover populations of endangered ocelots.

Property owners, who have so much to lose in the climate crisis, should not resist regulation. Instead, we must step up and take some responsibility.

Governments are making phaseout plans for gas-powered cars and coal-fired power plants—but have done surprisingly little on another set of potent polluters.

Burgers branded with false climate claims are coming to a supermarket near you.

Disabled people are two to four times more likely to die or sustain critical injuries during a disaster.

For the thousands of kids who cross the U.S.-Mexico border each day for school, hotter days are making a fraught experience more uncomfortable—and dangerous.

Sifnos’s unique combination of political will and cultural vitality gives it a fighting chance to become a story with a happy—or at least not tragic—ending.

Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and inefficient cleanup promises from the tech industry.