Urban farming can make it easier for city residents to obtain healthy, affordable food. During the partial...
Environment
Instead of fighting it, we should embrace the desire for economic growth and direct its path. By...
From occupying House offices to suing the federal government, young people are exploring creative strategies to spur...
The Grand Canyon was once a place to avoid. Now it’s a high-traffic marvel. Few sights are...
While the president chased after his wall, the real national emergency was people dying in extreme weather....
Life-threatening cold temperatures in the central US are caused by changes in wind circulation in the Arctic that bring...
These industries are among the country’s worst water polluters. By Jasmine Spearing-Bowen and Karl Schneider In Ringwood,...
The Trump administration wants to end federal protection under the Clean Water Act for many small streams...
A community in so many ways defined by reinvention butting up against land prized for its preservation...
By 2100, more than 50 per cent of the land now used to grow coffee will no...
From bird songs to wind patterns, sound is a key but often underappreciated element of natural places....
This network of FSA camps—the series of communities designed to be occupied and left on a seasonal...
Threats of global catastrophe won’t move people to action. Only the heart can inspire zeal. By Charles...
Geographical consultations with shamans showed the relationship between imperialism, exploration, and indigenous environmental knowledge. By and large,...
Analyzing the communication space and social construct of early modern Europe from the perspective of environmental history....
Plastic’s low density allows it to float on water and be swept away by winds and waves...
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...