Detailed data is useful for understanding and addressing environmental effects on people’s lives in ways that become difficult…
Every year, the number of human-caused fires spikes on July 4, and many of them are related to fireworks. When trees and…
Both faults are along plate boundaries that move in similar ways and have ruptured in enormously destructive earthquakes…
As the national conversation shifts to political finger-pointing, an important environmental question deserves careful scrutiny:…
Decades of farmers using more fertilizer than they needed have quietly built up large reserves of nutrients in the soil.
Heat waves can be dangerous, and the conditions indoors can be worse than outdoors. A study of all the single-family homes…
When huge companies assert their patents, smaller businesses and public plant breeders are dissuaded from conducting research…
At the heart of combating misinformation is critical thinking and recognizing when you’re being spun for corporate profit.
A newly drafted Pittsburgh Steelers player asked whether the city’s rivers are safe for swimming. A water researcher explains…
Local needs, political tensions and corporate power all get involved in the democratic processes by which Americans govern…
Heat waves do more than dry out vegetation that can easily burn. They also play a role in lightning strikes, particularly…
Many steps that are good for clean energy also dovetail with federal priorities, from affordable housing to data centers…
There are opportunities at every level of the US energy market to save consumers money – if governments, companies, communities…
An environmental engineer who mapped microplastic pollution in three of Pennsylvania’s watersheds explains what it means…
Electric utilities don’t make money from selling power to customers, but instead profit from investments in power plants,…
So far, about 10% of the ocean has formal protection as countries work toward the 30x30 goal, but many areas are still protected…
As sea ice melts, more of the Arctic Ocean opens up. A former ambassador explains how this treaty creates time for scientists…
The constant noise of traffic is so ubiquitous, it is barely noticeable to our ears – until we step into a roadless forest…
Permanently installing a heat pump system in a building is expensive. But new window units can deliver many of the benefits…
El Niño can trigger intense periods of extreme ocean warming known as marine heat waves that can devastate marine life.