Environment

Mickey Moniak's first major league homer wound up in the hands of a hungry kid — and mom had her hands full.
“I swear to God this lady has the worst luck of anything,” the woman's daughter told the 911 operator.
In the 1970s, the EPA allowed chemical companies to dump toxic waste into the deep sea. Now, oil giants are drilling right on top of it.
During an virtual climate summit, President Joe Biden laid out a plan for the United States to combat the climate crisis.
The new target for limiting planet-warming pollution nearly doubles Obama's goal, highlighting how much time to act was lost during the Trump years.
As the U.S. gathers world leaders to discuss big climate actions, it's holding out hope it can get Brazil's far-right president to care about deforestation.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered the news while standing in a lake basin that would normally be under water.
"We salute the fact" that John Kerry, Biden's special envoy for climate, traveled to China, Italian ambassador to the U.S. Armando Varricchio told HuffPost.
As 40 top world leaders gather online for the first big climate confab since 2019, here are the key policies and political dynamics for which to keep an eye out.
The Lone Star State has long muddled the line between hunting and farming. Now cloning may help game ranches breed big bucks.