Health & Science

Mayors from 70 cities send a letter to the Trump administration, saying a plan to push millions of people out of the food stamp program would punish some of the neediest.

Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest are proliferating at an alarming rate.

At Omni Recycling, a materials recovery facility in Pitman, N.J., one can see firsthand the mess that plastic has become for recyclers.

From entry and observation to “motivational moment” and referral.

Health systems are known more for competition than working together, but when it comes to treating opioid addiction, that may be changing.

China is no longer taking the world's waste. The U.S. recycling industry is overwhelmed. This doesn't bode well for our plastic waste problem.

Pennsylvania is shutting down Three Mile Island for good next month. With the nuclear plant gone, how will the state produce carbon-free energy?

This is where Earth's refrigerator door is left open, where glaciers dwindle and seas begin to rise.

Why does e-cigarette maker Juul advertise its product on TV when cigarette ads are banned? The short answer: Because it can.

If you want to know what climate change will look like, you need to know what Earth's climate looked like in the past

More than 1 million adults on Medicaid in Pennsylvania have only bare bones coverage. Why is getting dental care so hard for these patients?

Lawyers for the nonprofit proposing a supervised injection site compared it to ERs, syringe exchanges. U.S. attorneys said the difference is they’re legal.

Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to, according to an Associated Press analysis.

They hope to help OB-GYNs and other health providers closely monitor a mother and baby's health so that red flags can be assessed before they are life-threatening.

Lawyers for Safehouse will lay out how the supervised injection facility would operate. It’s the first hearing since federal prosecutors filed suit.