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We all know the downsides of being poor. But what about the downsides of being rich? This week, we explore the psychology of scarcity...and excess.

While it may seem that heaps of plastic from meal kit delivery services make them less environmentally friendly than traditional grocery shopping, a new study suggests that's not necessarily true.

Ethan Lindenberger had never received vaccines for diseases like polio or measles because his mom is anti-vaccine. Now he's 18, he's finally getting his shots.

In school, we're taught we should trust science because the scientific method leads to measurable results and hard facts. But Naomi Oreskes says the process of inquiry doesn't end there.

Over the past 20 years, Americans have been twice as likely to sweat through record-breaking heat rather than shiver through record-setting cold, a new Associated Press data analysis shows.

The incoming far-right president said he requested the change. Environmentalists are worried about how the Bolsonaro administration will handle environmental issues.

Airs Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

A San Diego geochemist is being remembered as a diligent and wise colleague after succumbing to cancer.

Dewayne "Lee" Johnson, 46, says the company's Roundup weedkiller caused his illness. He will accept the award after a judge reduced a jury's original figure of $289 million.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have left Gaza in the past year, as conditions there have worsened.