The Department of the Interior, or DOI, has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C. as “the department of everything else” — public lands, natural ...

They brought in their big heavy equipment and started coming up Little River to remove debris,” Huggins said. The workers, ...

The small town Plympton, Massachusetts, eliminated 305 tons of garbage a year by making everyone pay for what they toss.

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Despite strong evidence that plastics are harmful to people, oil-producing countries oppose action on human health.

But a growing body of research is reinforcing the knowledge that wildfire smoke is much more than an inconvenience — in fact, ...

Two days after wildfires broke out in Los Angeles last January, tech founder Edward Kushins and real estate agent Willie ...

Scientists are exploring whether encouraging phytoplankton growth could sequester atmospheric carbon without harming oceanic ...

Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into ...

As the U.N. body faces an American threat to its jurisdiction over deep-sea mining, diplomats have more or less left all the ...

As federal programs are frozen or eliminated, Indigenous communities are seeking new ways to fund and finish urgently needed ...

A Native Hawaiian mother’s fight to keep her family in Lāhainā despite soaring costs, mortgage limbo, and land-hungry ...