Environmental disasters, like extreme weather events, can limit access to abortions and contraception, making reproductive autonomy more difficult. During disasters like hurricanes, an increase of ...

In 2010 BP's Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling rig exploded, killing 11 people. The resulting spill poured up to 205 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and harmed thousands of animals, from ...

Climate change is the single greatest threat we've ever faced — not only to human society but to the Earth's web of life. The Center's Climate Law Institute was founded to unite our programs in ...

President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to undo a landmark 2001 policy called the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This administrative rulemaking would open nearly 45 million ...

The yellow-billed cuckoo is sometimes called the "rain crow" because its song is often heard just before thunderstorms or summer showers. But this rare bird raises its voice less and less often in ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— A study published today in the journal PeerJ shows the Endangered Species Act has saved roughly 99 percent of protected wildlife since its creation in 1973, demonstrating the law has ...

Read a statement from 30 scientists, doctors and public-health experts from Harvard, Cornell, Rutgers and other universities about the "overwhelming evidence for the toxic effects of lead in humans ...

When a Chiricahua leopard frog wants attention, it snores — at least, its distinctive call sounds like a snore. But the sound of snoring around desert streams, springs and even stock tanks is a lot ...

It would be the single largest evisceration of public lands protections in American history. President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to undo a landmark 2001 policy called the ...

Biomass energy is made by burning living things like trees, crop residues, and other “woody biomass” to produce electricity. Like fossil fuels, biomass energy releases loads of planet-heating carbon ...