Environment

With a cyclical and capital-intensive copper industry, landlocked Zambia faces a number of hurdles to economic diversification and job creation even as the labor force has grown rapidly. The headline…

The awards have already added 1,800 no-emissions buses to the nation’s roadways, more than doubling the number of such vehicles in use…

For young children, nature-based learning environments can be the key to establishing environmental stewardship.

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

Cities around the world are battling extreme heat this summer. An expert explains why and how record temperatures aren’t the whole story.

Environmental science finds that so-called heat islands occur when urbanized areas experience much higher temperatures than neighboring outlying areas within major metropolitan areas. In and around U.S. cities, more affluent parts of…

A new method can spot ocean microplastics globally and track them over time. The new work provides a day-by-day timeline of where microplastics enter the water, how they move, and…

Could provisions in the Farm Bill help with the high rates of suicide among U.S. farmers?

Defining the Climate Continuum in the Context of Cyclical Black Displacement  From the Trans-Atlantic human trafficking massacre to the impacts of the current climate crisis, a consistent thread in the…

Efforts toward inclusivity and accessibility could make climate solutions better for everyone as a result, advocates say.

US cities are starting to reform laws that required developers to provide minimum amounts of parking. But there’s more they can do to loosen the auto’s grip on downtowns.

We undertook this learning journey in India by engaging with partners and experts in the field to truly understand the threat the climate crises poses to the people we serve,…