The rare window to ask tough questions opens after a disaster. Too often, it closes before accurate answers can emerge.

The draft of the treaty that negotiators began working on last week mentioned human rights at least twice. But the text ...

As the U.N. body faces an American threat to its jurisdiction over deep-sea mining, diplomats have more or less left all the ...

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New maps show that where animal feeding operations exist, higher percentages of Latino and uninsured residents also live.

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The Transportation Department says states can reapply for funding under the Biden-era program it had halted. Groups fighting the freeze in court decry the delay.

A Native Hawaiian mother’s fight to keep her family in Lāhainā despite soaring costs, mortgage limbo, and land-hungry ...

As countries try to find agreement on plastic pollution, creative interventions are turning heads — and turning the ...

Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into the early hours of Friday — with no agreement on a global plastics treaty.

Two days after wildfires broke out in Los Angeles last January, tech founder Edward Kushins and real estate agent Willie Baronet-Israel allegedly hiked the price of a home they were renting out in the ...