Let them eat... turnips? Tomato shortage in UK has politicians looking for answers
Frost, floods, energy prices and Brexit are among the possible culprits in the shortage of tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli and lettuce in the U.K.
Environment
California and the Northeast are hit with major winter storms
Facing a drought, California sees back-to-back snowstorms that have helped build up the Sierra Nevada snowpack. After an uneventful winter in the Northeast, snow is falling from New Jersey to Maine.
Here's why Arizona says it can keep growing despite historic megadrought
Phoenix has long been one of America's fastest growing cities. But central Arizona may finally be facing a reckoning as much of its groundwater supplies are becoming tapped out.
Scientists are flying into snowstorms to explore winter weather mysteries
A plane loaded with scientists and their equipment has been flying through frozen skies this winter, sampling cloud particles to improve predictions of which storms will wreak havoc on the ground.
EPA tells Norfolk Southern to temporarily stop shipping toxic train derailment waste
The agency heard concerns from residents and officials in Texas and Michigan, where some of the contaminated waste had already been shipped.
The rights to a famed PSA of a crying Native American now held by an Indigenous group
The anti-pollution ad debuted in 1971 and showed a man in Native American attire shed a single tear at the sight of pollution over a once unblemished landscape.
A big proposed wind project in Idaho faces major local opposition
Opposition is mounting to what would be one of the biggest wind energy projects on federal public land, near a former Japanese internment camp. There is a nearby constituency fighting the wind farm.
Five people died after an air ambulance crashed in western Nevada
The airplane included a pilot, nurse, paramedic, a patient and family member of the patient. The cause of the crash has yet to be determined.
California's solution to regulations around hazardous waste: send it across state lines
California government agencies have found an easy way around the state's strict regulations about dumping hazardous waste: send it across state lines.
People smugglers keep trying to recruit this boat captain. Here's why he says no
By day, Saint-Louis native Pape Dieye is a boat captain-turned-tour guide for a fancy hotel that caters to Westerners. By night, he turns down requests to smuggle human beings across the ocean.