The 52 counties honored in this year's awards from the Center for Digital Government are transforming local government with cutting-edge tech while focusing on resident services.

The groups allege the site's owner, a U.S. arm of Taiwanese chemical giant Formosa Plastics, has hindered their ability to ...

Far more families are choosing to have fewer — or no — children. Many countries, including the U.S., now face a rapidly aging ...

The world's population is expected to peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and then decline to 10.2 billion through the end of the century.

Forest fragmentation—the division of large, intact woodlands into smaller patches—has emerged as a critical issue in ...

Nearly two years after an unprecedented die-off of endangered smalltooth sawfish, scientists are still investigating ...

Negotiations toward a global, legally binding plastics treaty are set to resume this summer, with the United Nations ...

Minister of Environment, Hanif Faisol Nurofiq, has highlighted the connection between environmental degradation, particularly ...

The combined effects of climate change and air pollution have led to direct declines in precipitation in the U.S. Southwest, ...

Europe's latest spell of sizzling heat, which ended last week, caused a threefold rise in heat-related deaths because ...

The team is "here to stay," no matter what, lead researcher Keith Bowers said, amid federal funding changes for scientific ...

Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.