This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past 75 years, the United States has tapped investment and innovation to lead the world out of myriad crises. America’s rise as a global leader after World War…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Some 56 million years ago, just after the Paleocene epoch gave way to the Eocene, the world suddenly warmed. Scientists continue to debate the ultimate cause of the warming, but…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Biogas has been used as an energy source for centuries, to warm bathwater or light streetlamps, for example. But it is our slate of 21st-century socioenvironmental challenges that have sparked…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Air pollution contributes to as many as 9 million premature deaths worldwide each year – twice as many as war, other violence, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. Fine particulate matter…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New research finds that a two-pronged approach is necessary to fight things like sea-level rise and ocean acidification. There has been a lot of talk about whether individual acts in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan officially announced earlier this month that the Biden administration will reinterpret the Trump administration’s definition of what constitutes “waters of the United States” – waterways…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Picture this: two babies born on the same day, maybe even within the same hour, at the Harlem Hospital Center in New York City. One baby, born to a Black…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Around the world, people are experiencing an unprecedented triple threat. The compounding impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and conflict have exacerbated underlying inequities, driving vulnerable communities further into…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Within the field of ocean conservation, as in many areas of social and environmental change work, we are witnessing a call to authentically advance equity issues, particularly within the context of the global pandemic and the social and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As North America enters its peak summer growing season, gardeners are planting and weeding, and groundskeepers are mowing parks and playing fields. Many are using the popular weed killer Roundup,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amid a push from the Biden administration for U.S. agriculture to help slow climate change, a new study shows farmers in the Corn Belt are dropping the ball on adopting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This is how California’s water crisis is going these days: The only functioning well in the rural community of Teviston broke in early June, leaving more than 700 residents without…