A new report lays out steps communities can take to help their residents survive heat waves as the risk of dangerous temperatures…
Humans have figured out how to season their food with virtually every part of plants.
Depleted uranium munitions are bad news for enemy tanks, but are not nuclear weapons, and studies have shown that they pose…
Two disaster response experts mapped who gets FEMA buyouts and where they go. It turns out, they don’t go far.
So much pollution goes into the air today that even without wildfire smoke, 99% of the global population breathes unhealthy…
Returns are becoming a costly sustainability problem for retailers and the planet. A supply chain expert explains.
The colonial era profoundly shaped natural history museums and collections. Herbaria, which are scientists’ main source…
The official forecast calls for a strong El Niño by winter, but other models suggest it might dip in and out. An atmospheric…
A ‘greenhushing’ campaign is targeting insurers, who have the power to accelerate the transition to cleaner energy in…
Do environmental reviews improve projects or delay them and drive up costs? Two legal scholars explain how the law works…
It’s not a question of if insurance will become unavailable or unaffordable in high-risk areas – it’s a question of…
Finding cosmetics that are free of hormone- disrupting chemicals often means paying more. An epidemiologist explains the…
A 90% crop loss in the Peach State may sound like a disaster, but Georgia isn’t actually the Big Apple of peach production…
Humans rely on the ocean for food, jobs and other resources, but these systems are being stressed to the brink.
From fluffy crabs that wear sea sponge hats to worms that glow in the dark, scientists are constantly finding amazing new…
Millions of people worldwide are exposed via soil and water to arsenic, whether naturally occurring or related to pollution.…
Governments and activist groups are bringing environmental issues to international courts. They argue that the impact of…
One of the most damaging invasive species in the oceans has breached a major barrier – the Amazon-Orinoco river plume…
Current forecasts suggest a warm tropical Pacific will be interfering what could otherwise be a ferocious Atlantic hurricane…
Southwest states have bought time with an agreement between California, Arizona and Nevada to cut Colorado River water use…