Around the globe, hotter temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier ...

By 2050, we will need to feed almost 1.8 billion more people, when our global population reaches around 10 billion.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a series of actions to roll back landmark environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants, climate ...

(The Promise of Justice Initiative via AP) This photo provided by The Promise of Justice Initiative shows the nitrogen gas mask in the new execution chamber at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for ...