AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly pulled teams of young people out of a variety of community service projects across the country on Tuesday. The ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a ...

New Yorkers can now get fined for not separating their food scraps. Some critics say that's not the right approach.

Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.

Critics warn that the Trump administration’s plan to transfer public lands could enrich wealthy developers while eliminating access for everyone else.

Extra-hot oceans could spawn monster storms. Researchers worry that cuts at the agency will interrupt the flow of data for ...

Who pays for the risk that a power plant goes over budget or fails? In states with CWIP laws, it’s not utility companies — ...

On March 25, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it will release grant money through REAP and two other clean energy ...

Vessels that don’t quite meet the stricter standard but are more efficient than the base target don’t get a reward. They must ...

Last month, France’s national railway operator released a glimpse of the designs for its upcoming fifth-generation high-speed ...

Thorn forest once blanketed the Rio Grande Valley. Restoring even a little of it could help the region cope with the impacts ...

The wristbands will also feature a QR code that leads to a survey asking attendees how they traveled to the Earth Night event ...