People behind spiked products have operated with impunity, in part because the business has boomed so fast that regulators haven't caught up while drug enforcement agents have higher priorities.
“It’s like a dystopian novel: To grow up seeing the world fall apart around you, and knowing it’s going to be the fight of your lives to make people stop it.”
Thousands of fires, most of them set to clear land for plantations that make palm oil, created thick clouds of smoke that disrupted air travel and sickened people.
Just a small bit of the computer is made from recycled bottles picked up from Haiti’s streets and waterways, but it signals the possibility of changing where we get the plastics for our electronics.
Can you sue to save the world? As the global climate crisis intensifies, people are increasingly taking governments and corporations to court in a bid to slow runaway greenhouse gas emissions.
From the 1940s until the mid-1970s, General Electric sold off leftover asbestos material from its Peterborough factory for pennies a pound, delivering it by truck to hundreds of workers' homes.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, the strongest one in the islands’ recorded history, Floridians with boats and planes began an evacuation that rivalled Dunkirk in its approach.
Deforestation in Bosawás stems mainly from migration, as people in other parts of the country move to the region looking for fertile land and space to raise cattle and grow crops.
Land and forest fires are becoming very common in Indonesia. International environment watchdog Greenpeace says the government needs to strictly enforce laws against responsible parties.
Executives from DuPont, Chemours, and 3M told Congress at a hearing Sept. 10 that their companies should not be held liable for widespread per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pollution across the US.
Extreme precipitation events are on the rise in India. The resulting floods are being exacerbated by unplanned urban growth and environmental degradation, driving millions from their homes and causing widespread damage.
A new report examines why gender equality is necessary for efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change in Africa, and how governments and other stakeholders can integrate the two.
Several states have enacted similiar laws in the past three years targeting protests of pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure. Texas' just went into effect.
Illegal and unregulated gold mining that destroys the rainforest and pollutes rivers and groundwater with mercury is a threat that is also driven by markets and greed.
A new report from the Army found that privatized family housing at nearly 50 of the branch's bases, including Fort Jackson in Columbia, cited wide-ranging concerns from residents.
The technology company hopes the initiative, which has destroyed about 70,000 mosquito breeding sites, will be expanded to other cities in Colombia and across the continent.
Protest against new mining projects across Latin America are increasingly being quashed, according to NGOs. Mining of the raw materials is also fomenting social and political unrest.
Indonesian companies were given until March this year to disclose their "beneficial owners" under a 2018 presidential regulation, but less than 1 percent have complied.
The project would extract 1.2 million tonnes of sand every year for the next half-century was approved by the Manitoba government without federal review or indigenous input.
