The Department of Homeland Security is reassigning about 100 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees to help hire thousands of new immigration officers, even as the busiest stretch of ...

France’s constitutional council has struck down a provision in a new agriculture bill that would have reintroduced the pesticide acetamiprid, citing the nation’s constitutional right to a healthy ...

Mercury contamination in hundreds of northern Minnesota lakes is increasing, driven by a mix of industrial emissions, climate change, invasive species, and other factors that put fish and human health ...

The Trump administration’s plan to “update” the nation’s premier climate assessments is drawing fierce pushback from researchers who say it risks replacing established science with misinformation.Mark ...

Young, right-leaning activists trying to green the GOP are colliding with a White House that is selling off public lands and ...

Nearly 14 years after the United Nations declared the oil-tainted water of Nigeria’s Ogoniland a public health emergency, residents still drink from foul, benzene-laced wells.AnuOluwapo Adelakun ...

A newly unearthed 1974 letter from DuPont’s then-chairman reveals the company knew its plastic products could not be recycled ...

A new report warns that the world’s 100-million-plus industrial chemicals are contaminating air, water, and human bodies with health effects ranging from ADHD to cancer.Damien Gayle reports for The ...

A JAMA study estimates 440 excess deaths in Los Angeles County in the month after January’s wildfires, far above the official toll of 30.Ruby Mellen reports for The Washington Post.In ...

A global study warns that rampant groundwater pumping is accelerating drought, fueling sea level rise, and threatening food ...

Since returning to office in January, President Donald Trump has peeled back climate and health protections, driving up household costs, weakening pollution safeguards, and stalling clean-energy ...

West Virginia’s 240,000 public-school students returned Aug. 1 to cafeterias stripped of the seven synthetic dyes long common ...