Santiago Maestas has grown apples, peaches, and apricots on his New Mexico property for more than five decades. He still cherishes the network of ancient gravity-fed irrigation ditches that deliver ...

As dams built in the mid-20th century age and risk failure during major rainstorms, rural areas consider hard choices.

A federal judge last month handed a major victory to opponents of water fluoridation, capping a seven-year legal battle over whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has failed to protect the ...

In "Why Animals Talk," zoologist Arik Kershenbaum argues that knowing what animals are saying is less crucial than why.