Scientists Push Colombia Summit to Draw a Hard Line on New Fossil Fuel Expansion

A three-week S&P 500 rally hit a wall Sunday as Iran-related developments sent oil surging and futures sliding, exposing how thin the market's margin for surprise really is.

In rural America, millions of people lack access to basic sewage infrastructure, and the feedback loops keeping them there are older than most realize.

A 1,200-year cherry blossom record built by one scholar now shows peak bloom arriving dangerously early, and the consequences reach far beyond Japan's spring festivals.

American women are having roughly as many babies as they did 20 years ago. The birth rate panic is largely a misreading of when, not whether, they have children.

After wildfire, historic flooding, and immigration raids, Lahaina's residents are fighting to rebuild their town for themselves — not for the tourism economy.

Across Texas, thousands of low-producing oil wells are legally trapping landowners in leases that pay almost nothing while blocking better opportunities.

A rediscovered quantum phenomenon called jamming is forcing cryptographers to ask whether physics-based security can survive physics itself being incomplete.

Pakistan's rare geopolitical leverage has kept it solvent for decades — but it may also be the reason its economy never had to grow up.