Atrazine is detected at harmful levels in more a quarter of rivers and stream miles … Few volunteer firefighters get health ...

Back-to-back droughts and floods under climate change are a growing threat in the U.S. A new study in PNAS Nexus raises alarms about such extreme weather whiplash, in which communities can rapidly ...

Responding to an epidemic of the fatal lung disease silicosis, workplace regulators in California on Wednesday released a draft emergency rule that could lead to a ban on artificial-stone countertops.

Arturo Gómez, 80, carries one of his three dogs through his home in July in La Lomas Colonia in Rio Grande City, Texas, where they all suffer from the rising temperatures and high cost of electricity.

Andrews Behavioral Health, a nonprofit based in Tyler, serves as the local mental health authority for a five-county region in East Texas that includes Smith, Woods, Van Zandt, Henderson and Rains ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas manages the electric grid for most of Texas, including power generation, transmission and the wholesale bulk-power market. Credit: Courtesy of ERCOT AUSTIN, ...

Over the last half-decade, a troubling trend has emerged in Texas: Electricity costs have soared while sizzling summer temperatures have made access to reliable air conditioning a requisite to ...

Kimberly Sennett, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner specializing in perinatal mental health, works in her home office on August 15, 2026. Sennett helps patients identify symptoms of ...

Maya Hart, one of millions of Southeast Texas residents who fled their homes during Hurricane Rita in September 2005, with the Galveston Bay behind her. Miles-long traffic jams, gas shortages and a ...

Public Health Watch and its media partners won national Edward R. Murrow awards Thursday for two investigative projects, “Uninsured in America” and “Fumed.” “Uninsured in America,” an examination of ...

Radiologist Brandon Crum scrutinizes images of coal miners’ lungs in his clinic in Coal Run Village, Kentucky. All the lungs shown here are riddled with fibrotic tissue, the breath-stealing signature ...