Society & Policy

ProPublica examines the wheeling and dealing that Pat Mulroy has orchestrated over nearly three decades to find more water for Las Vegas and use it to help the city keep expanding

Companies and governments continue to explore how a financial system could work with an economy that eliminates excess greenhouse gas emissions

Emergency room visits due to high heel shoe–related injuries doubled between 2002 and 2012. Erika Beras reports

John Horgan critiques biologist Jerry Coyne's new book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible.

Call it the "grolar bear" dilemma: Are hybrids caused by climate change bad for species?

Is NASA's Space Launch System a flying piece of congressional pork or our best shot at getting humans to deep space?

A global plan, ambitious but doable, could double food production by mid-century and simultaneously rein in the emissions, deforestation and pollution caused by agriculture

Organizations with widespread corruption typically develop cultures that justify and encourage corruption, often so much that corruption becomes routine 

A solar-powered plane will fly for an estimated five days and nights—or ditch in the ocean

U.S. personnel working at an Army facility in Utah appeared to follow correctly all the outlined procedures to inactivate anthrax before they mistakenly shipped off live samples of the deadly bacteria

Black balls that litter the planet may prove the best marker for a new geologic epoch recognizing humanity's outsized impacts

ProPublica examination shows that the scarcity of water is as much a man-made crisis as a natural one