Higher risks of stroke, diabetes, heart diseases detected along coastlines…rising temperatures to cut crop yields…indoor heat ...

Teens and young adults are coming of age amid a rising culture of fear, intensified by the rhetoric and policies of President ...

A convergence of factors is leading to high rates of incidence and deaths from the disease among Latina women in deep South ...

Heavy workloads, long hours contribute to job-related depression…pregnant women face medical care barriers in states with ...

More than a thousand measles cases reported this year…Asian Americans losing status as healthiest racial group…pipeline gas ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has recorded high benzene emissions for nearly 20 years outside K-Solv, a barge-cleaning and chemical distribution ...

The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017. After the flames, nipping at the night sky like lashes from a ...

The sun sets behind a rural home in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Credit: Salina Arredondo This is one of two stories examining extreme heat in California’s San Joaquin Valley. The project was a ...

This is the first of two stories about firefighters’ cancer risks. Ben Brickhouse came to his career as a late bloomer. In December 2003, when he was 41 years old, he took a vacation to Asheville, ...

Billionaire William Koch’s industrial plant in Port Arthur, Texas, is small compared to the three sprawling oil refineries that surround it – just 112 acres compared with the 10,000 acres occupied by ...

Downtown Houston on a smoggy day. Particulate matter, an ingredient in smog, has been linked to a long list of health effects, including premature death, stroke and breast cancer. Credit: Dave Fehling ...

Doug Curran in his office at the East Texas Community Clinic in Athens last November. Curran helped open the safety-net clinic in 2020 after decades of practicing medicine in the rural area and seeing ...