“Hey! We need more water! We need help!” Thousands of people, pressed against metal barricades, shouted similar cries at the Louisiana...

Most Americans might not know it, but the vast majority of the cut flowers sold throughout the country are grown and exported out of...

Last month, an unusually optimistic development regarding climate change garnered international attention at the UN Environmental...

In an era obsessed with buzzwords, what does it mean to be sustainable? Some might argue that sustainability is the relatively small,...

Ambitious has certainly been a word used to describe the “Green New Deal,” a 14-page resolution to tackle climate change authored by Sen....

An island in the Chesapeake Bay is sinking. It’s projected to be underwater within the next 30 years, and its inhabitants are going to be...

A public showdown. Two empty chambers. A fortune at stake. It’s not a wild west movie—it’s the escalation of political tensions that...

Up to 40 percent of the food produced in the United States is never eaten. At the same time, one in every eight Americans struggles to...

The phrase “Green New Deal” has been thrown around a lot as Democrats prepare to take back the House of Representatives for the first...

Woolsey Fire, Southern California: 96,949 acres burned; 1,500 structures destroyed; 3 people dead. Camp Fire, Northern California:...

Modern environmental regulation and debate tends to focus on electric and industrial production—how it pollutes and how it can be...

While the Department of Defense (DoD) may not commonly be seen as a leader in environmental sustainability efforts, the US military has...

From the 12th to the 14th of September, the streets of San Francisco and the extensive ranks of the global environmentalist community...

Helicopters with sniper rifles, cyanide landmines, and poison bombs dropped from the sky: The practices of Wildlife Services sound more...

Few things feel more powerful than being surrounded by young people who are taking a risk to speak out and fight for justice. Disrupting...

Rhode Island needs energy. A series of power plant closings and maxed out pipelines have left the state –  and much of the New England...

In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to clean drinking water, and called upon states and...

In the final days of his presidency, President Obama created two new national monuments: Bear Ears Buttes in Utah and Gold Butte in...

On December 20, 1951, the United States switched on the first peaceful nuclear power reactor the world had ever seen: Experimental...

On July 9, 2009, Chris Young was shot in the neck with a .22 caliber pistol. Surprisingly, in a nation plagued by urban violence, this...