OPINION: A billionaire tax would raise $100 billion, enough revenue to prevent 3 million low-income and working-class Californians from losing their healthcare, Sen. Bernie Sanders writes.

Thermal imaging shows how people experience scorching heat varies depending on their circumstance.

Amid skepticism from some environmentalists, clean energy advocates see the reforms as crucial for a transition from fossil fuels.

Blocked Middle East oil shipments upended supply chains and prices for fossil fuel-based plastics, offering yet another reason nations must support a global treaty that shifts to sustainable materials...

A North Mississippi farm worker died of extreme heat exposure in early September amid one of the hottest summers in recent state history.

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to be the largest ever.

Hundreds of potential breast carcinogens taint everyday consumer products, food, drinking water, medicines, building materials and pesticides, scientists reported.

Since returning to office, Trump has overseen a multi-pronged attack on the legal and regulatory framework to protect public health and the environment from the climate-warming consequences of…

The EPA revoked limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, rejecting decades of settled science to argue that they do not contribute to dangerous air pollution.

What if 50 years from now, having destroyed the habitat for the creatures around us, we are plagued by an inconsolable loneliness?

An ambitious bill to keep toxic “forever chemicals” off California produce lost its teeth after the chemical and agricultural industry spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying against it. The b...

The burning of fossil fuels is pulling down the world’s highest peaks.

After Pennsylvania reported two measles deaths, the C.D.C. took the highly unusual step of challenging the state. Our reporter Apoorva Mandavilli explains how this tension between the Trump administra...

The price of unprotected status can be very high.

More than 1,000 chemicals that migrate from packaging into food pose serious health risks, a new study shows. But the vast majority of chemicals lack enough information to tell if they’re safe.

Microplastics in waterways and soil are fueling calls to reduce the pervasiveness of plastic in agriculture.

Integrantes de las comunidades xincas queman plástico para deshacerse de él y avivar el fuego para cocinar, sin saber que así exponen a sus familias y al medioambiente a contaminantes mortales. Un amb...

Microplastics in waterways and soil are fueling calls to reduce the pervasiveness of plastic in agriculture.

Indigenous Xinca villagers burn plastic to dispose of it and stoke cooking fires, unwittingly exposing themselves, their children and environment to deadly pollutants. An ambitious project aims to cha...

State regulators face calls to better protect low-income, Spanish-speaking immigrants from pesticide exposure in agricultural communities.

The oil giant has filed a notice of dispute under an energy treaty about the European Union’s carbon capture and storage requirements.

As regulations have reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions from vehicles and industry in recent years, smoke from climate-fueled wildfires is erasing air quality gains.

Two mornings, two sightings, and a call that carried half a mile along the Dungeness. What an Olympic Peninsula cougar researcher makes of it, and why we are better off with the cats than without them...

More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.

After a catastrophic fire at a Bay Area renewable fuel refinery nearly killed a worker, his union colleagues fought for stronger protections. Now they’re locked out.

After a catastrophic fire at a Bay Area renewable fuel refinery nearly killed a worker, his union colleagues fought for stronger protections. Now they’re locked out.

Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is the produce he buys at the grocery store part of the problem?

Most physicians say AI improves their ability to care for patients, said a panelist at HJ26, even as they worry about ethical challenges, data privacy risks and its potential to skew research.

Hazardous chemical releases from industrial accidents that injured or killed people increased by nearly 50 percent in recent years, new analysis shows.

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Hazardous chemical releases from industrial accidents that injured or killed people increased by more than 50 percent in recent years.

Bruggers was known to colleagues as a dogged reporter and a generous coworker, and to sources as an honest watchdog.

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The state budget proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom includes little or no funding for programs central to managing California’s emerging wolf population — a shortfall that could lead to problems.