The Northeast ground to a halt last week after an onslaught of winter weather—revealing much about the way we live

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It can remove 4,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year. But the cost isn't clear yet

Forget Constance Garnett -- the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation makes the most cryptic of existential cult classics stranger, funnier and more alive than ever

Countless energy and mining companies have been granted permission to pollute aquifers across the country

The 40-foot-wide sinkhole collapsed early this morning in Bowling Green, Ky.

State and federal regulators often do little to confirm what pollutants go into wells for drilling waste

Hundreds flee rising floodwaters after second blast in less than a month

A scientist and onetime cicada-eater explains the best way to harvest and consume the 17-year cicadas

Arctic oil needs to stay underground if we’re going to have any hope of keeping global warming below 2 degrees C

Research finds that PPE, medicines, and counterfeit products thrive on darknet websites during the pandemic

In the catacombs beneath Paris, a legendary trespasser enacts the theater of psycho-terror.

California runs a shadow program that allows many of its aquifers to be pumped full of toxic waste

Corporations are feeding info to law enforcement officials in an effort to suppress their political opponents

Experts fear tax deductions for water use as a “depleted asset” could actually worsen the crisis