The Eastern Shoshone this month voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock as a way to treat them more like elk or deer rather than like cattle. Because the two tribes share the same ...

The Trump administration's border policies are expected to have a big impact on this year’s largest gathering of Indigenous leaders, activists, and policymakers.

AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly pulled teams of young people out of a variety of community service projects across the country on Tuesday. The ...

A new study confirms what residents in Louisiana oil towns have long suspected: They get all the pollution but very few of the jobs.

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a ...

Soaring egg prices have people flocking to buy chickens of their own, creating a nationwide shortage of chicks.

Nondairy milks — fortified drinks like soy, almond, oat, and rice milk — have varying impacts on the environment and climate, but all of these plant-based alternatives use less land and water than cow ...

Grist journalists share how we investigated this story and how to learn more about ethylene oxide emissions in your area.

Extra-hot oceans could spawn monster storms. Researchers worry that cuts at the agency will interrupt the flow of data for ...

Critics warn that the Trump administration’s plan to transfer public lands could enrich wealthy developers while eliminating ...

The wristbands will also feature a QR code that leads to a survey asking attendees how they traveled to the Earth Night event ...

Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.