The COVID-19 pandemic is interrupting scientific field work across North America, leaving blank spots in important data…
Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of many great North American city parks, understood that ready access to nature made…
Are facilities that produce necessities like energy and clean water doomed to be ugly? Not when artists and landscape architects…
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, some critics say livestock farms promote diseases that spread from animals to humans. An animal…
Are 'murder hornets' from Asia invading North America? A Japanese entomologist who's been stung by one and lived…
From Nairobi to Los Angeles, pandemic lockdowns have cleared pollution from the skies. But those blue vistas may be temporary,…
COVID-19 outbreaks have occurred at more than 100 US meatpacking plants. Geography, workforce demographics and economic…
The US faces a high risk of hurricanes and other disasters this year that could leave thousands of people in need of shelter.…
How should the United States power its economy in 2050? A recent survey finds surprising agreement from Americans of all…
After a 5-year review, the EPA is leaving US standards for fine particle air pollution unchanged, even though recent studies…
If the forecasts are right, the US could be facing more natural disasters this year – on top of the coronavirus pandemic.…
A new study forecasts that thousands of miles of new road construction will cut through tiger habitat across Asia by 2050.…
Warmer waters, heavier storms and nutrient pollution are a triple threat to Great Lakes cities' drinking water. The…
Researchers are using a newly developed satellite tag to study previously unknown aspects of tiger shark reproduction. This…
One way that farms can handle shortages of protective gear for workers is by switching to less-toxic pest control methods.
Tomanowos, aka the Willamette Meteorite, may be the world's most interesting rock. Its story includes catastrophic ice…
The Deepwater Horizon disaster set new records for holding polluters to account. But it had much less impact on laws regulating…
Climate change is making extreme weather events, both hot and cold, more frequent across the Great Lakes region. Weatherizing…
Office buildings have been left mostly empty for weeks amid the coronavirus pandemic, leaving standing water in pipes where…
We spend 90% of our lives indoors, and every building has its own indoor microbiome. Can we learn to manage them in ways…