A boy looks out over Jamaica Bay in the Edgemere neighborhood of New York City. The community, which is flanked by the Atlantic Ocean and the bay, is at growing risk of coastal flooding due to sea ...

The work of City Harvest, New York City’s largest food rescue organization, took on new urgency when the recent government ...

A truck prepares to haul coal at the North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming, the largest coal mine in the world. Due to cost and environmental concerns, use of coal to generate U.S. electricity has ...

Concrete built much of the modern world. It paves highways, shelters millions and forms the foundations of countless buildings. But cement, the crucial powder that serves as the binder in concrete, ...

This article was produced in partnership between Columbia Journalism Investigations and Documented. It was co-published by The Guardian and republished by Floodlight. Gricelda experienced her deciding ...

In the Navajo Nation, and for many tribes, sage is a sacred plant burned in ceremonies to promote healing, spiritual protection and connection to the land. But Meredith Benally, who is Diné and the co ...

Renewable energy in the United States has surged to unprecedented levels, with the combined power generated by solar, wind and geothermal more than tripling over the past decade, according to a new ...

Retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant Vida Rivera knows heat can be as dangerous as any enemy. Early in her military career, she collapsed from heat exhaustion while carrying a 65-pound pack on a ...

A shuttered Michigan nuclear plant is poised to start up again, buoyed by $3.1 billion in public subsidies. In Pennsylvania, tech giant Microsoft said its need for more electricity led it to strike an ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s $7 billion Solar For All Program faces an uncertain fate following last week’s rollout of executive orders from President Donald Trump putting a freeze on ...