AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly pulled teams of young people out of a ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a ...

Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.

Extra-hot oceans could spawn monster storms. Researchers worry that cuts at the agency will interrupt the flow of data for ...

Who pays for the risk that a power plant goes over budget or fails? In states with CWIP laws, it’s not utility companies — ...

Louis Blessing’s wife asked for his help replacing the battery in her laptop. An electrical engineer by training, Blessing figured it would be a quick fix. But after swapping out the old battery for a ...

An internal memo reviewed by Grist showed the National Weather Service has stopped translating radio alerts in the southern ...

Thorn forest once blanketed the Rio Grande Valley. Restoring even a little of it could help the region cope with the impacts ...

Last month, France’s national railway operator released a glimpse of the designs for its upcoming fifth-generation high-speed ...

Soaring egg prices have people flocking to buy chickens of their own, creating a nationwide shortage of chicks.

Some $380 million is now in limbo after Trump laid off staff that run a program helping low-income people pay their energy ...

Installations are wrapping up this month for the turnkey program providing solar, heat pumps, and batteries to households ...