Human Health

Addressing the coronavirus pandemic can also provide opportunities to fight climate change and boost equity.

One legal doctrine that courthouse reporters are eyeing closely is that which currently authorizes the EPA to control greenhouse gas emissions.

U.S. states hope to tap Canada’s network of large dams to meet low-carbon goals, but do better options exist closer to home?

Biodiversity loss threatens national security. We need to invest in technologies to preserve our vital food varieties.

A recent string of massive landslides in Alaska and around the world bears the fingerprint of climate change.

Erin Brockovich, E.O. Wilson, Jane Fonda and others deliver important new books addressing the fights against climate change, the extinction crisis and toxic pollution.

This month’s western megafires have burned millions of acres and upended countless lives. It’s a sign of things to come if we don’t start to listen and act.

The EPA allowed polluters to stop monitoring or even preventing their emissions, and many states followed suit. Here’s what happened — and how to fix it.

In The Reindeer Chronicles, Judith D. Schwartz shows how badly damaged landscapes are being restored across the world — and why more of that work is deeply needed.

Videos of people getting too close to, and touching, the rare apes motivates other people to want to do the same — and that could spread diseases like COVID-19 to a critically endangered species.