Last year, the journal Science published a study that made a bold - and elegantly simple - claim: To mitigate climate change, plant a trillion new trees.…

When the US places financial sanctions on one country, it de facto sanctions many other countries as well — including many of its allies. This is…

In early 2018, a few months after the cities of Oakland and San Francisco sued several major oil companies over climate change, attorneys with the…

The head of the International Monetary Fund has warned that the global economy risks a return of the Great Depression, driven by inequality and financial sector…

Vanessa Bain was less than a year into her gig as an Instacart shopper when the company announced it would no longer allow tipping on…

Your average marijuana plant is a rather unimposing, forest green weed that blends well with nature. The dirty truth, however, is that the business of…

Fred Clarkson, a senior research analyst at the social justice think tank Political Research Associates, had studied the Christian right wing for decades when someone…

In recent essays, I’ve compared American capitalism to European social democracy — and pointed out that the latter is more successful in every way imaginable.…

"We see the industry's growing impact from space," said Barbara Dix, a scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the…

It was during his inaugural address on January 20, 1961, that President John F. Kennedy, made his famous exhortation, “And so, my fellow Americans: ask…

A million seabirds died in less than a year as a result of a giant “blob” of hot ocean, according to new research. A study released by the…

As the drug epidemic began to unfold in the United States, deaths classified as drug-related for 15- to 64-year-olds hit 9% in 2016, up from…