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 ...

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

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

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

An internal memo reviewed by Grist showed the National Weather Service has stopped translating radio alerts in the southern ...

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

Louis Blessing’s wife asked for his help replacing the battery in her laptop. An electrical engineer by training, Blessing figured it would be a quick fix. But after swapping out the old battery for a ...

A proposed ordinance could give relief to communities who have long suffered from industrial pollution and its effects on ...

Soaring egg prices have people flocking to buy chickens of their own, creating a nationwide shortage of chicks.

A new study confirms what residents in Louisiana oil towns have long suspected: They get all the pollution but very few of the jobs.

The Forest Service says salvage logging is needed to avoid fires. Ecologists and hikers worry that will prioritize profit over ecosystems.