Journalist Michael Hastings died in a car crash in Los Angeles early Tuesday at the age of 33, according to a statement from his employer, BuzzFeed.

Hastings, who was also a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was perhaps best known for his candid Rolling...

"We are in a race against time," former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Wednesday night, in an interview with actor Harrison Ford.

"We still live in a state of denial," Clinton suggested, regarding the future impacts of climate change. "We see it, we experience it, but we...

The teacher duo from Australia and the tech trio from Poland packed up their bags and hopped a train back to Tokyo when we awoke Sunday morning in the Nikko, Japan hostel to pounding, snowy rain. My new phone charger had confused its sole life purpose and sapped my phone's...

When Eve Marie Carson was murdered five years ago today, first I was scared. Then I was angry. I got mad at the grass on the quad for continuing to grow so damn green even after our friend, the inspirational leader of our school, had been killed. I was mad...

The Delhi auto rickshaw driver stared at me in disbelief when I asked him to take me to Chandni Chowk. He asked, "Chandni Chowk?"

Assuming I had pronounced the name wrong, I tried, "Chand-knee Chow-kah? Chandn-eye Chalk?"

He laughed, and again asked incredulously, "Chandni Chowk?!"

Maybe the "h"'s were silent....

NEW DELHI -- Seychelles is flooding, Mali is parched, Kiribati is eroding and the one bright spot would seem to be the fact that the United States president finally uttered the words "climate change."

Nations on the front lines of climate change expressed hesitant optimism for the U.S., as...

NEW DELHI, INDIA -- Inside India’s Hotel Taj Palace, beyond the armed guards at the gate, through the security checkpoint, up the sweeping marble staircase and then down the two sets of escalators, a group of world leaders are gathering under rows of chandeliers to discuss resource efficiency.

The...

When I first moved to New York, I lived on a "sketchy" street featuring an occasional stabbing and a rumored gang presence that I never saw, unless the 80-year-old men on bodega stoops were, in fact, geriatric gang leaders.

My mother made me promise that when traveling home after...

After an investigation uncovered abuses at a Wyoming pig farm, nine workers there have reportedly been charged with animal cruelty, according to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).

A Monday press release from the animal advocacy organization said the Wyoming Livestock Board and the Platte County...

Actress Shannon Elizabeth won't be eating turkey this Thanksgiving. She'll be saving them.

The "American Pie" star is the new 2012 spokesperson for Farm Sanctuary’s Adopt A Turkey Project. The farm animal rescue organization hosts an annual project encouraging people to "adopt" a rescued bird in their...

History was made at the third and final presidential debate at Lynn University on Monday night. President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, sparred over American policy in Libya and Iran. They traded generalities on trade with China and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and made brief...

Although environmental issues were largely absent from the vice presidential debate Thursday night, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan still managed to take a few swings at green energy.

"Look at just the $90 billion in stimulus the vice president was in charge of overseeing -- this $90...

As Arctic sea ice levels hit a new record low this month, scientists and activists gathered to discuss how to bridge the gap between scientific facts and the public's limited understanding that we are, in their words, "really running out of time."

The National Snow and Ice Data...

Mitt Romney outraged environmental activists on Sunday, telling NBC's David Gregory, "I'm not in this race to slow the rise of the oceans or to heal the planet," during an interview on "Meet the Press."

"The reason I'm in this race is to help people," Romney said. "I'm...

As the final weeks of the 2012 presidential campaign unfold, one of the starkest contrasts between the recently released Democratic and Republican party platforms is in climate change policy.

While the 2012 Republican platform mentions the term "climate change" once (while downplaying the issue's severity), the...

Perhaps it seems obvious that if you care about your family's future, you must also care about the planet your children will inhabit.

Yet critics argue that concept was lost on the audience at the Republican National Convention Thursday night, as they cheered GOP presidential nominee Mitt...

Bill McKibben, the environmental author-turned-activist, knows his movement is troubled. But he's committed to protecting the environment, so he trudges forward, battling setbacks, death threats and what he sees as his primary enemy: the fossil fuel industry. In 2008, he launched the...

Unprecedented melting of Greenland's ice sheet this month has stunned NASA scientists and has highlighted broader concerns that the region is losing a remarkable amount of ice overall.

According to a NASA press release, about half of Greenland's surface ice sheet naturally melts during an average summer. But...

Yes, it really is getting hot out there. A new report finds that the past 12 months have been the warmest on record for the mainland United States.

According to the NOAA National Climatic Data Center's "State of the Climate: National Overview for June 2012" report released Monday,...

Brace yourselves, East Coasters.

A new report finds that rates of sea level rise in a "hotspot" along the U.S. Atlantic Coast are increasing about three to four times more than the global average and could "increase the vulnerability of coastal cities to flooding, and beaches and...