Environment

Federal judges were penalizing big companies for destroying emails and other evidence. So the companies lobbied to have the rules changed. Since then, a ProPublica analysis shows, the rate at which judges issue penalties has fallen by more than half.

China and South Korea could be game changers on climate – and create a more peaceful region in the process.

The number of unhealthy air days in nearly three dozen cities soared in the first two years of the Trump administration, according...

Jacques is the second ranger to be killed in the park in the last six months.

"A three-fold increase now puts Antarctica in the frame as one of the largest contributors to sea-level rise."

The legal petition calls on the California Air Resources Board to adhere to it's "moral obligation to reduce greenhouse gases that are helping to drive catastrophic global warming.”

"Industrial agriculture has no place on public lands dedicated to conservation of biological diversity and the protection of our most vulnerable species, including pollinators like bumble bees and monarch butterflies."

Those with something to gain from the Dakota Access pipeline want us to believe the energy company is an overburdened victim.

Exxon has a well-established history of misleading the public and investors about the risks of climate change, and is involved in a number of lawsuits from cities and counties over it.

"The scope of illegal mining in the Amazon, especially in indigenous territories and protected natural areas, has grown exponentially in recent years, with the rise in the price of gold."