Zoë Schlanger

A government official said that France must be "on the offensive" with potentially unsafe chemicals.

With snowpack at zero and the summer heating up, the toll of the drought keeps growing.

Industry representatives say the rules stem from stigma and threaten to shut down the entire industry.

The president's social media launch went smoothly enough.

The NYPD police commissioner reportedly hated it.

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers had a terrible commute Wednesday morning.

Farmers would be protected from potentially deeper cuts if they opt into the voluntary program.

After a nearly 10-year hiatus, the massive male walruses have got their live feed back.

The spill is five times larger than originally estimated.

New study is first to identify this mechanism, which adds to octopus' remarkable ability to camouflage.

According to a new study, "no feasible alternative causes remain."

The local District Attorney is reviewing "potentially relevant criminal and civil statutes" related to the spill.

The oilman was "very upset" by some of the research being done by state seismologists.

The 10,000-year-old mass of ice will be gone in the next five years, scientists say.

This weekend's transformer failure is third for the plant in the last eight years.

The decision comes three years after Shell's disastrous first attempt to drill in the Arctic.

Kalief Browder spent three years in prison awaiting trial. His case was ultimately dismissed.

One man takes on the Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal.

The Department of Agriculture just released its "kill list."

Drinking the bacteria-laden water could give you dysentery or gonorrhea, but to each his own.

The public is invited, but ticket holders won't know who will be cooking for them until that night.

Christian Scientists will no longer be able to opt out of vaccines for their children.

The Taylor Energy spill, 20 times larger than originally reported, has largely gone unnoticed by the public.

"Climate change can no longer be denied, or ignored," the president says.

Meet the man who is in charge of patrolling Los Angeles's lawns amid the drought.

Oz is the vice chair of the department of surgery at Columbia's medical school.

We are all guinea pigs, according to a new film.

Welcome to the cutting edge of water recycling.

California may need to ration water for farmers, too

The state's Forest Service has just agreed to look into it.