The Eastern Shoshone this month voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock as a way to treat them more like elk or deer rather than like cattle. Because the two tribes share the same ...

The Trump administration's border policies are expected to have a big impact on this year’s largest gathering of Indigenous leaders, activists, and policymakers.

Vessels that don’t quite meet the stricter standard but are more efficient than the base target don’t get a reward. They must ...

AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly pulled teams of young people out of a variety of community service projects across the country on Tuesday. The ...

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

Critics warn that the Trump administration’s plan to transfer public lands could enrich wealthy developers while eliminating ...

For 12 years, scientists thought they knew how much extreme heat human bodies could cope with. New research shows how wrong ...

A proposed ordinance could give relief to communities who have long suffered from industrial pollution and its effects on ...

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

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

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

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