Rice plants are a big source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Scientists just developed a strain that cuts those emissions by 70 percent.

Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.

Chris Wright is no hater of renewables, nuclear power, or transmission. But the Trump administration’s energy policy is a ...

USAID was a key player in renewable energy and disaster protection around the world — until Elon Musk showed up.

“Taking a plastic bottle and turning it into part of a pair of sneakers that after a year will be buried or burned is not perpetuating a cycle,” said Kevin Budris, deputy director of Just Zero, a ...

Simmering urban temperatures are bad for humans. It's another story for rats, according to new research -- especially in ...

Sámi homelands, known as Sápmi, stretch across northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and the report’s authors ...

Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the country’s largest lobbying group for the plastics industry.

Researchers and activists are archiving websites and data because “policymakers and the public need good information to make the best policy." ...

After wildfires devastated the island, homelessness spiked. Advocates fear L.A. could face a similar fate without strong ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

Saket Soni, founder of Resilience Force, says skilled restoration workers are doing the arduous task of repairing US cities affected by disasters.