Environment

Dealing with pest problems is nobody’s idea of a good time. Insects and rodents often seem to pop up from...

Faced with mounting scientific evidence that bee-poisoning neonicotinoids, or neonics, could cause an "ecological armageddon," European regulators on Friday approved...

Using a device designed by 23-year-old inventor Boyan Slat, who dropped out of an aerospace engineering program in college to...

A paper published in the journal Science uncovers for the first time a startling correlation between human migration and the...

America’s twisted politics may slow the transition to renewables, but other countries are now pushing the pace. In July of...

When Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisc.) founded Earth Day in 1970, his hope was to make the environment a political issue...

By 2030, Sweden aims to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels by 70 percent. Days ago, the country took a...

Travis Heide’s farm is large enough to produce 2,200,000 bushels of wheat per year. Although he has been mostly quiet...

In a recent report by the UK Government Office for Science titled “Future of the Sea,” a grim scenario is...

The fact that scientists are trying to drill into our heads is that time is running out to prevent catastrophe,...

What is most striking is how the meteorologists talk about chemtrails so casually, as if it were the most natural...

Hurricane Irma live coverage from multiple sources.

This is the first time that three hurricanes have the potential to make landfall at the same time. This satellite...

"Quite simply," wrote Eric Holthaus for Grist overnight, "meteorologists never expected a storm like Irma. The storm appears to have...

Love the idea of traveling with your home on your back, but hate the low gas mileage (of 5-8 miles...