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In America, everybody has the same opportunity, we like to think. Our history tells another story, one of permanent underclasses whose members have little…

Drought and extreme heat that scientists link to climate change are altering the UNESCO-protected marshlands. Iraq's average annual temperatures are increasing at nearly double the rate of Earth's.

Climate change's impact on a South Carolina community can be told through the stories of a dying forest, a fisherman with no bait and a queen fighting to protect a way of life on ancestral land.

Guyana, one of South America's poorest countries, is under severe threat by rising seas. That had made it a champion of climate action, but it all changed when ExxonMobil found oil off its waters.

In the late 1800s, William and Irene Willits quit their school teaching jobs to establish a new home in the Cascade Mountains. Near Upper Elk Creek in…

The image of the factory ship with huge nets scooping fish out of the ocean is a powerful one, and commercial fisheries are generally regulated. Not so…

We have several big anniversaries this year: 350 years since the first Africans arrived in what became the United States. 50 years since humans arrived on…

The rights given to newly-freed slaves after the Civil War did not sit well with some whites in the South. Within a few years of the war, the original Ku…

Programs across Cascadia to retrofit existing buildings for energy efficiency make a difference, but the results are probably too small and too slow.

The precarious future of President Biden’s $2.75 trillion federal infrastructure and social spending plan has state officials hopeful — and anxious.