Environment

Adding up the weight of very different materials doesn’t tell us about their scarcity, environmental, or socioeconomic impacts.

Storm surge is the No. 1 cause of deaths and damage during a hurricane, yet detailed storm surge forecasts are difficult to create. AI could turn that around.

Leslie Cornfeld launched the National Education Opportunity Network, or NEON, to address educational inequality.

View of the 2008 Kingston, Tennessee, spill that prompted coal ash regulations. (Photo by Brian Stansberry, Wikimedia CC) Almost every st…

The International Energy Agency expects global renewable energy capacity to double by 2030, even with lower growth in the US, but fossil fuels still dominate.

A global perspective on environmental issues. Our mission is to inform, educate, enable and create a platform for global environmental action.

Many of these extraordinary places are increasingly at risk due to escalating climate change, invasive species, and and a lack of consistent funding to protect them.

We’ve made tremendous progress against famine — but hunger hasn’t disappeared.

Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about navigating conservation’s crisis. During Climate Week in New York, I joined discussions with grassroots leaders from the Global South that offered a sharper view of how philanthropy meets—and sometimes misses—the realities of frontline work.

Human-caused global warming, agriculture and deforestation are all threatening the environments these creatures need to survive.