Explore the environmental consequences of unsustainable farming and irrigation in some of the world’s driest regions. This ...

If you’ve been glued to headlines about the terrifying hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, you’re definitely not alone. The story has quickly become one of the most unsettling ...

Clear-eyed reporting on the science and politics of climate change, nuclear accidents and natural disasters — with in-depth coverage of the EPA, disaster relief, melting glaciers and more.

Environmental disasters generally fall into two categories: natural and manmade. The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 destroyed flora and fauna across hundreds of square miles and partially ...