Environment

Smoke from Canada’s wildfires in Ontario and Québec has dipped south again, causing air quality alerts for more than 80 million in the U.S.

During his State of the Union address last week, President Biden discussed the historic, bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which, he suggested, will help the nation “withstand the devastating effects…

Cell cultures are common tools in biology and drug development. Bringing them up to scale to meet the meat needs of societies will require further development.

The 1960s and 1970s were a golden age of infrastructure development in the U.S., with the expansion of the interstate system and widespread construction of new water treatment, wastewater and…

As part of a small social enterprise focused on unconventional environmental solutions, I’ve regularly pitched larger conservation organizations and funders on helping us scale. Once the province of Silicon Valley…

Here’s why that’s important for the environment.

Over the past two decades, global reservoirs have become increasingly empty, according to new research.

By a narrow margin, the Supreme Court has ruled against the Navajo Nation in a case over water rights in the drought-stricken US Southwest.

Bayissa, a resilient entrepreneur in his early thirties, embodies the extraordinary potential that arises when resilience meets opportunity. As a determined entrepreneur, Bayissa stands as an example of what’s possible among the masons who have received training and entered the sanitation market…

Overall air pollution in the United States has decreased since 1990, but people of color are still more likely to be exposed to pollutants than white people, regardless of income…

I talked with Abdul Dosunmu, who runs the Climate Justice Funders Pledge, about why BIPOC leadership is important to the climate fight, how transparency changes the behavior of foundations, and how to improve the relationship between environmental justice groups and big funders.

Dr. Beverly Wright joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss her journey as an environmental justice pioneer and how to maintain momentum in the movement as administrations change.