Environment

Flint reveals that there is a much deeper contamination poisoning our country's political morals: namely, an insidious right-wing belief that poor people (particularly people of color who are poor) are underserving moochers whose misfortunes can be ignored.

An agreement preserves British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, home to the rare spirit bear and other wildlife, but allows some logging.

A new study shows that the din from large ships matches the frequencies used by Pacific Northwest orcas to find food and communicate with one another.

Monsanto has long maintained the safety of their widely popular product. The agribusiness giant has also vehemently denied glyphosate’s link to cancer.

“As you can easily notice, any business can protect nature and there are different things that can be done in order to be environmentally conscious.”

BNL was designated a high-pollution Superfund site in 1989. The large amounts of radioactive tritium­H30 or radioactive water­ were found to have been leaking from BNL’s High Flux Beam Reactor in 1997.

There will be no more fracking in California's offshore waters, at least until the U.S. Department of Interior can analyze the impacts of fracking on the environment.

Residents are frustrated by the slow response to the Aliso Canyon gas leak.

More than 35,000 solar jobs added in 2015, bringing U.S. solar workforce total to nearly 209,000; an increase of 123% since 2010.

A new study says future geologists will be able to study our era based on the layer of plastic debris collecting worldwide.