Washington National Cathedral announced Thursday it has chosen contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall, renowned for his wide-ranging works depicting African American life, to design new stained-glass windows with themes of racial justice that will replace a set with Confederate imagery that were removed in 2017.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One desperate California school district is sending flyers home in students' lunchboxes, telling parents it's “now hiring." Elsewhere, principals are filling in as crossing guards, teachers are being offered signing bonuses and schools are moving back to online learning.

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the United States, two U.S. officials said, undercutting the Biden administration's public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion.

An influential panel of advisers to the Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention convened on Wednesday to debate which Americans should get COVID-19 booster shots and when — a question that has proved more contentious than the Biden administration apparently expected.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says that the drop in greenhouse gas emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic was only temporary and that the world will probably not reach targets set in the Paris agreement.

In a study published in the journal Current Biology, scientists outlined a new method for ‘potty training’ cows called the MooLoo.

Scientists have announced $15 million in funding for a project to combine woolly mammoth DNA with that of Asian elephants to create calves that can walk the Arctic tundra.

The group Global Witness recorded 227 murders of environmental and land protectors in 2020, noting that it is probably an underestimate due to underreporting.

Taco Bell has launched a nationwide pilot program in partnership with recycling company TerraCycle to reuse empty sauce packets.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s monthly U.S. climate reports showed that the average temperature during the meteorological summer (June to August) of 2021 was the hottest on record at 74°F, which was 2.6°F above average.

More than 200 medical journals around the world have released a joint statement warning that climate change and environmental degradation is the greatest threat to human health.

A new study has found that ice melting can warp Earth’s crust horizontally more than 1,000 kilometers away from the glacier.

‘We will not be able to produce enough food for the people on this planet’ — Sam Kass, Obama’s former White House assistant chef, explains why we urgently need to fix our food production systemsProduced in partnership with EAT Forum, Stockholm Resilience Centre, IKEA Foundation.

'Plastic detective’ and National Geographic Explorer Imogen Napper investigated all the ways plastic made it into the air, water, and sediment — and the results might surprise you.

This country is making PPE out of its plastic waste.

1,400+ dolphins were reportedly killed in the Faroe Islands' largest-ever recorded hunt (warning: graphic)

For weeks, the girls on Afghanistan’s national soccer team had been moving around the country, waiting for word that they could leave.

These kids in the UK are on a mission to ‘save our planet’ — and they hope the adults in charge are taking note 🌎