A novel private plan in the late 1980s helped set the stage for planting trees as a means to sequester carbon emissions.
The Netherlands allows medically assisted euthanasia for extreme mental suffering. Some doctors question the guardrails.
Recent studies implicate the immune system and a herpes virus as potential contributors to development of the disease.
More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak ...
The first of five large dam projects under consideration has been approved, despite environmental and social costs.
On a cloudy fall day in 2023, Alfred Pebria and his fellow construction workers were installing a wind turbine in Solano County, California. They were trying to hoist a nacelle — a ...
Biostatistician Jeffrey Morris says effective dialogue requires an awareness of how politics shape a person's beliefs.
In March 2013, a 27-year-old man showed up at the Fifth People’s Hospital in Shanghai, China, with a high fever and cough. Within 48 hours, he was admitted to the intensive care unit with severe ...