The flooding that has inundated much of the Midwest is not over, and residents are finding little to salvage.

India’s supply of arable land is second only to that of the U.S., but it must buy some foods on international markets, exacerbating a global food crisis.

Seventeen years after the end of the Soviet Union, cotton is still king in Uzbekistan, where the environmental destruction linked to the diversion of rivers for irrigation continues unabated.

A new federal report says the rise in levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide is influencing climate patterns and will produce an uneven national map of harms and benefits.