After a decade of local opposition, political scandal and changing plans, the Sio Silica project’s fate is still up in the ...

On a sweltering afternoon in Punjab, a farmer lowers his bucket into the well that has sustained his family for generations. The water looks clear, but tests reveal a different story: uranium levels ...

It’s said that Badwater Basin earned its name when a 1849er’s mule refused to drink from a nearby spring-fed pool, suggesting ...

Few sectors have been targeted by the promises of artificial intelligence as relentlessly as education. Could one of those promises have finally been fulfilled? The school textbook is education’s most ...

The Akkadians. The Maya. The Tang Dynasty of China. The Chaco. The Indus Civilization. These diverse societies, separated by oceans and continents, each persisted for hundreds of years. They had large ...

Flooding Egypt’s vast Qattara Depression with seawater could slightly lower global sea levels and reshape climate adaptation.

The usual rule-of-thumb cutoff point for when you’re paying more than you probably can afford for rent or mortgage is about ...

A hearing is set for next week on the proposed definition rolled out last month for "Waters of the United States,” which outlines the waterbodies eligible for protection under the federal Clean Water ...

Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year. By Sarah Lyall One fiction, one nonfiction (which he turns to at night). In “Future Boy,” he recalls juggling signature roles in “Back to the ...

Environmental hydrology stands at the forefront of scientific efforts to address urgent global challenges such as climate change, shifting land-use ...

December 8, 2025 • Fresh Air's book critic says her picks tilt a bit to nonfiction, but the novels that made the cut redress the imbalance by their sweep and intensity. Karen Russell's The Antidote ...