Society & Policy

President Obama’s pitch for the pollution fighting measure relies on saving lives

If the administration loses, the elimination of federal subsidies to many states would boost health care costs for all

The EPA plans to determine whether CO2 from aircraft endangers public health, a first step to regulating emissions from the aviation sector, sources said

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?

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

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

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