When southeast Chicago’s steel industry collapsed, the loss reverberated through neighborhoods built around the mills.…
From ice cores extracted from the Tibetan Plateau, scientists recovered the equivalent of 1,705 virus species. Reading their…
After wildfires in California and Colorado cities, levels of harmful metals in the water jumped. Nature sent up a red flag.
The lush urban forest in northwest Philadelphia helps cool the city and provides other environmental protections.
As the world’s population grows, contact between humans and wildlife will increase in more than half of Earth’s land…
Antarctica’s riskiest glacier is a disaster in slow motion, a polar scientist writes. But in a rare bit of good news,…
Can a city that’s synonymous with freeways and gridlock deliver a car-free Olympic Games? Los Angeles has picked up the…
Whether they’re going to cook a fish, have it mounted or just take a photo and then release it, anglers want more than…
As summer temperatures rise, finding ways to build cities that don’t hold in the heat and can provide some cooling is…
We don’t generate power directly from volcanoes, but their presence is a sign that there are good geothermal resources…
Fusarium oxysporum can infect over 120 plant species. Whether it destroys Cavendish bananas as it did their predecessor…
Better measuring standards, more responsibility for producers and an end to single-use products are all positive steps.…
For trees, growing to maturity involves much more than just reaching upward.
A National Academies report finds crucial lessons for everyone’s disaster planning and recovery in a town hit hard by…
Just like fires can contaminate municipal water systems by melting pipes, farms’ and ranches’ water supply systems are…
Forecasters are closely watching a storm headed for the Caribbean that’s likely to become Ernesto. New techniques are…
Phrases like ‘climate crisis,’ ‘climate emergency’ or ‘climate justice’ might seem to escalate the urgency,…
Modern rodenticides can kill rats with a single dose and readily pass up the food chain to larger carnivores. They are widely…
When US cities offered low-cost, high-quality public transit during World War II, buses and trains were full. Some cities…
A soil expert explains why flooding rice fields in South Florida benefits the agriculture-rich region.