All Points of Progress

Scientists thought solar and wind power were prohibitively expensive options to cut carbon emissions. But new research suggests these green technologies might be an affordable solution if employed on a national scale in a 'superhighway of electrons'.

California lawmakers introduced a $2 billion plan to find homes for its estimated 114,000 homeless residents. In Los Angeles, where the mayor declared a homeless emergency, the problem is particularly acute.

Try durable and precise instead. The rise of product quality in China is starting to create waves in the world's most dynamic economies. 

The Central American nation is leading the world in cutting fossil-fuel pollution by relying on hydropower and other forms of renewable energy. Is this a model other countries could follow?

People are getting injured less than just two decades ago, say scientists.

Past efforts have pitted the wildlife experts and fishermen against each other and offered little additional protection for whales. This year, the two camps are trying something different: cooperation.

As different case studies continue to prove, small-scale urban farming could help ensure food and financial security in local communities.

It's early days, but solar power is beginning to show how it could recast the entire American power grid. Some power companies are worried. But in Vermont, they're giddy with excitement. 

The number of juveniles committed to prison or other facilities dropped by 53 percent between 2001 and 2013, a new study found.

Thanks to pollution regulations, acid rain levels in the northeastern US and eastern Canada are significantly lower today than they were a few decades ago. 

Street harassment isn't just uncomfortable, it can influence whether a woman continues her education or works outside the home. Some Costa Ricans are pushing to criminalize the behavior.

Between 2010 and 2015, an average of 0.08 percent of the world’s forests was lost each year, down from 0.18 percent each year in the 1990s, according to a report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Global Forest Resources Assessment.

The 2015 Money Mindset Report overturns assumptions about selfish, 'me-obsessed' Millennials, adding to growing studies that say this is a generation of givers. 

The latest data suggests more American high school students are graduating than ever before. Some experts say new federal requirements are behind the improvement.

The number of people living in extreme poverty will dip below 10 percent of the global population before the year is over, according to the World Bank, and if the world continues on its fast track of economic progress, extreme poverty will be eradicated in 15 years.

The United Nations wants to eliminate global hunger by 2030. That may not be as daunting a task as it sounds.

Brazil has been successfully working since 2004 to slow deforestation of the Amazon, mostly by enforcing laws, but also by designating parts of the rainforest as national park land. 

Nearly 30 years after the Ukraine nuclear disaster that forced thousands of people from their homes researchers find the animals are back - and thriving. 

Consumers’ calls for lower-impact ‘food with integrity’ have surged recently, and a set of recommendations from the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee took food's role in the environment into account for the first time.

New actions at the supply and demand ends of the ivory trade could help save elephants.