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If hemisphere-spanning currents are slowing, greater flooding and extreme weather could be at hand.

Winners of the world’s leading environmental award faced down Vladimir Putin and the country’s recently deposed leader, Jacob Zuma, to overturn a multibillion-dollar nuclear deal. Unprecedented win for women in top global environment awards.

America's belated push to develop offshore wind energy

New reports provide an unprecedented look at contaminants leaking from coal ash ponds and landfills. But the chasm between information and environmental protection may deepen thanks to a proposed Trump administration rollback.

In early January, EPA chief Scott Pruitt met with Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) to discuss overhauling how EPA uses science. Smith hasn't been able to get legislation to do so through Congress, so he pitched pitched Pruitt to do so internally, according to emails obtained through a FOIA.

When the first season of Occupied was on screen the Russians were a fictional threat. Has reality caught up with the conceit?

Agreements like NAFTA, and proposed deals that would go further in handing power to corporate executives and financiers such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, have little to do with trade and much with ensuring corporate wish lists are brought to life.

Man found guilty of murder by all-white jury in deeply flawed trial had one of America’s longest-ever waits for exoneration

Change won't come to America's broken immigration system from policymakers. It will come from organizers.

"Why destroy public education so that a handful of people can boast they have a charter school in addition to their yacht?"