Plastic’s low density allows it to float on water and be swept away by winds and waves...
Environment
Recent phylogenetic analyses suggest that the yellow fever virus is approximately 1,500 years old. In many environmental...
Green infrastructure can make cities more resilient to climate change while creating ancillary benefits such as increasing...
In the last years of his life, Dante Alighieri was an unsuspecting witness to a rapid shift...
The ice sheet is now melting at rates unseen within at least the last 350 years. By Olivia...
Photo from USDA NRCS Texas, Flickr, Creative Commons An evolving concept called “sustainable intensification” aims to bridge the...
Jardin d’ Acclimatation inaugurated in February 1861 / Wikimedia Commons In the 19th century, groups of European...
Photo via World Wildlife Fund The oceans have been absorbing much more heat than previously calculated, meaning the earth...
Buildings affect how we sleep, work, socialise and even breathe. They can isolate and endanger us, but...
Melting away. / Photo by NASA/Kathryn Hansen We’re on the road to even more frequent, more extreme events than we...
Athens city walls / Photo by GreeceGuy, Wikimedia Commons Critically examining elements of both anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric environmentalism...
New research suggests temperature and sea level rise could be far worse than climate models predict. (Photo: Christopher...
NASA, Public Domain If greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by...
Illustration by Sean Quinn Urban areas present an interesting challenge — and a big opportunity — for...
Photo by Stephen Bugno, Flickr, Creative Commons Conserving the landscape around Angkor Wat in the face of...
The number of coal mining jobs has gone up slightly, but many times less than solar-related ones....
The fertile, mountainous terrain of Colombia’s coffee-producing central region is vulnerable to climate change impacts such as...
Ethnic Karens perform with a traditional dance during the Karen New Year celebration festival in Yangon January...
While conducting search and rescue in the mountains of Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in September of...
Near Oymyakon in Yakutia, Russia / Photo Maarten Takens, Wikimedia Commons To work out how the climate...
James Hansen testified to Congress A scholar of climate misinformation campaigns explains how, in part, the large...
The world’s biggest desert used to be green, lush and full of hippos. A new theory suggests humans could have tipped the environment over the edge. By Dr. David K. Wright / 03.16.2017...
Block Island Wind, the first offshore wind energy project in the U.S., started operation in 2016. Ionna22, CC BY-SA...
Figure 1. Park Hills, Missouri, 120 Buckley Street. The entire street borders the Desloge Chat Pile, which...
A haze has periodically wafted over Asia for 20 years. But despite rising public health concern, the...
Burgerbukta Glacier in the Arctic. Warmer temperatures in the Arctic have helped to cause extreme winter weather...
North American bison roam the Lamar Valley in Montana. Photo by Neal Herbert/Flickr By Dr. Elizabeth Boakes /...
The Growroom exhibited at Copenhagen Opera House. Photo by Alona Vibe From Space10 / 02.14.2017 Introduction The design...
Each container uses only 10 gallons of water per day, 90 percent less than what is used...
As the site of the baptism of Jesus Christ, the Jordan River is the source of all...