Traditional irrigation canals, or acequias, could help balance the water supply during droughts — if they are protected.

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 ...

When Andres Moreno-Estrada began studying genetics back in the early 2000s, the high cost of sequencing DNA was the biggest barrier to understanding the role of genes in human health and disease. But ...

Daniel J. Levitin's “I Heard There Was a Secret Chord” explores the many ways music can help heal our bodies and minds.