The seventh session of the UN Assembly (UNEA-7) kicked off today in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, bringing together Ministers ...

JR tells about what drew her to the nexus of AI, the environment, and society and what her hopes are for a future with AI.

Helping people work safely and protecting the environment is at the heart of what Trevor Cornish does all day. While pursuing a degree in environmental resources engineering, Trevor took advantage of ...

By analyzing Escherichia coli (E. coli) genomes, researchers have shown that antimicrobial resistant bacteria and the genes ...

Two years ago for Thanksgiving, I asked my L.A. Times colleagues who write about the environment: What gives them hope? Last year, I posed the same question to people working on climate change ...

While the dangerous effects of climate change continue to worsen, legal efforts to address a range of environmental issues are also on the rise. Headlines across the globe tout many of these legal ...

Repealing key protections could erase $254 billion in annual benefits for public health and the environment, compared with $39 billion in savings for regulated industries Looser rules around air and ...

When a gold mine in rural Liberia spewed three million gallons of cyanide-laced wastewater into soil and groundwater in 2016, affected Indigenous communities’ calls for accountability went largely ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. But the treatment of people who fight pollution has palpably ...

Say a pound of beef costs $5.34 at your local supermarket. That price, according to researchers, leaves out something important: beef’s heavy environmental toll. Add in things like deforestation and ...