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Southern California’s years-long drought has resulted in one of the “most extreme” wildfires the region has ever...
The ICESCAPE mission, or “Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment,” is...
Corals north of Cairns have been hit hardest by the recent bleaching. AAP Image/ARC Centre of Excellence...
Kudremukh National Park, India Valuing nature’s bounty and accounting for it on the balance sheets of companies...
An 1858 woodcut celebrating the laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable. (Library of Congress) By Ben Wilson...
Photo © iStockphoto.com/Andrey Danilovich Marine governance favors consumption and commerce over conservation. Here’s what we can do...
Credit: NASA/Flickr It will take at least three decades to completely leave behind fossil fuels. But we...
Illustration by Kelsey King By Dr. Philip Loring Ecological Anthropologist University of Saskatchewan It goes without saying...
The Portland, Oregon school district’s commitment to rid itself of text materials that encourage students to doubt...
Two of the Massachusetts youth plaintiffs, Shamus Miller and Olivia Gieger, accompanied by their lawyers, Phelps Turner,...
Montreal gears up for battle over proposed bottled water ban CK Staff / 05.13.2016 Fresh off his...
Abebe Haregewoin (right) and his father in Ethiopia. Credit: Courtesy: Abebe Haregewoin An Ethiopian expat worries for...
Hurricane Isabel viewed from the International Space Station in 2003. Credit: NASA. By Marc Brodine / 05.03.2016...
Meeting with community members in Ashland, Kentucky on Monday, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said her previous anti-coal...
By Timothy McGrath We spend a lot of time worrying about endangered species, especially the cute and...
Carbon farming techniques, including compost amending, are helping California ranchers turn their pastures into carbon sinks. Photo...
“Loss of oxygen in the oceans is one of the serious side effects of a warming atmosphere,...
Nature Conservancy of Tennessee’s William B. Clark, Sr., Nature Preserve on the Wolf River at Rossville, Tennessee....
This Earth Day, NASA is giving the world an insider’s look into the myriad activities the space...
“High temperatures are also accompanied by weak winds, causing the atmosphere to stagnate. So the air just...
Bleaching occurs when overly warm ocean waters cause coral to expel the algae living inside of it,...
Illustration © iStockphoto.com/traffic_analyzer Instead of engineering nature into standardized systems of production, we should look for ways...
HVAC ventilation exhaust for a 12-story building Building healthier structures for their occupants is a cornerstone of...
By Carolyn Beeler / 04.16.2016 Scientists have long warned about the potential for the West Antarctic Ice...
“What we found is they knew a great deal, and they knew it much earlier and with...
By Zoë Schlanger / 04.12.2016 For people living on the thousands of islands that dot the seas,...
Sarah Palin doesn’t have the guts to debate Bill Nye, so she’s debating a video instead By...
Creative Commons By Andreas Vihelmsson Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Medicine and Global Health Lund University Formerly known...
The World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC. Creative Commons: Deborah W. Campos By Isiah Holmes / 04.09.2016...