With a $4.5 trillion fight over tax cuts looming, the oil and gas industry wants to protect billions of dollars in tax benefits it enjoys and get new ones, too.

A tariff on goods from Mexico, the single largest supplier of horticultural imports to the U.S., would almost certainly mean ...

Cal Fire’s refreshed maps show a large increase in areas considered hazardous: “High” and “very high” hazard zones have grown ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Extreme weather wiped out billions in crops last year — but most federal aid may end up going to the wrong farms.

It takes lithium and cobalt to build the batteries that power electric vehicles and e-bikes, nickel and rare earth elements ...

However, other experts fear that what Trump is proposing could leave cities and states unable to pay for much-needed ...

The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are ...

A "rollercoaster" of funding cuts and layoffs have gutted critical agricultural research projects across the nation.

Few regulations have been as subject to the yo-yo of successive presidential administrations and their political whims.

Instead of continuing to dig tunnels or pits, some scientists are looking to a promising yet challenging source of minerals: ...

A U.S. Geological Survey effort to find underground deposits of clean energy metals has gotten bipartisan support.