Nearly 3,500 water quality samples were collected from beaches along the East and West Coast as well as the Great Lakes, and one in 10 failed to pass the new Environmental Protection Agency water s
The deadliest-ever outbreak of the Ebola virus has surged in West Africa after slowing briefly, and the pandemic is now "out of control," according to Doctors Without Borders.
A government audit confirms many of the findings of USA TODAY's 2012 "Ghost Factories" investigation and faults the Environmental Protection Agency for lacking criteria and time limits to screen mo
As environmental groups gear up for their first "put solar on it" national campaign, an online platform made its debut Tuesday that allows people to nominate local buildings throughout the United S
A bill that would have made California the first state in the nation to require warning labels on sodas and other sugary drinks was effectively killed on Tuesday.
More than 80 bodies have been found two days after a devastating flash flood in Afghanistan's mountainous and remote north, a provincial official said Sunday, as police and villagers scoured the ru
The electric power industry's plan to retire more than 10% of its coal-fired generators within a decade will do almost nothing to reduce the nation's emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, a US
