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

The phrase is puzzling for people trying to understand it as a policy goal. The United States already produces more oil than ever before.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

An annual tribunal where farmworkers share their experiences and needs has spurred laws guaranteeing overtime pay and heat ...

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

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

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