Summers are getting hotter every year. When it comes to adapting to a hotter planet, in the United States, it's cities that ...

Researchers and volunteers are surveying thousands of shorebirds as they migrate south, hoping the data -- on one of the most ...

José Pineda's attorneys say there's no clear explanation as to why he was pulled over and held, despite having on his person ...

Members of Homes for All Mass, a coalition of housing groups across the state, plan to file an initiative petition with ...

Boston is included in the Department of Justice's new list of so-called "sanctuary" jurisdictions. The release of the list ...

WBUR's Martha Bebinger lost her nephew, Austen Smith, to a drug overdose last year. In this essay, she describes the pain and questions that linger.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is cutting nearly $500 million in funding for the development of mRNA vaccines that are used to fight COVID-19 and the flu.

The Department of Transportation is raising concerns about airlines using artificial intelligence to set ticket prices based on customers' personal information. Airline ticket prices already fluctuate ...

We get the latest on Haiti's escalating violence days after gangs attacked an orphanage near Port Au Prince on Sunday, kidnapping seven staff members and a 3-year-old child.

Groundwater depletion is rapidly accelerating, creating areas of "mega-drying" in regions that heavily depend on groundwater for their drinking supplies.

Battles between herders and farmers over access to land in Nigeria's fertile central region have led to violent clashes and no easy answers.

U.N. officials say a quarter of the population in Gaza is experiencing "famine-like conditions." Health experts who have studied past famines warn that the fallout can reverberate across generations.