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The world's auto industry is getting a shake-up from Chinese automakers that are quickly expanding across the globe, offering relatively affordable electric vehicles designed to wow car buyers with sleek designs and the latest high-tech interiors.

A federal judge has found the U.S. government liable to the state of North Dakota for nearly $28 million in the state's lawsuit for recouping money spent on policing the protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

A new study estimates that the world’s biggest corporations have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, which is a shade less than the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States last year.

A company that spreads crushed rock on farmers’ fields to draw climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has won the $50 million grand prize in a global competition funded by Elon Musk’s foundation.

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history.

Leading automakers are showcasing their latest designed-for-China models at the Shanghai auto show this week.

Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear.

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern.

Arborists are hoping to transform vacant land on Detroit’s eastside by planting giant sequoias, the world’s largest trees.

Two lawsuits filed in Los Angeles accuse the major home insurers of colluding to limit coverage in high-risk areas across California.

Removing lanes to slow down speeding drivers is a long-embraced strategy for improving safety on city streets.

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history are still being felt.

Pupy the elephant has arrived at her new home in a sanctuary in Mato Grosso, Brazil, following a 2,700-kilometer journey from a zoo converted into an ecological park in Argentina’s capital where she had spent 30 years in conditions criticized by activists.

Nobody knows where whale sharks, the biggest fish in the sea, are mating.