Environment

Many rural counties in the United States face the dual challenges of lagging economic growth and increasingly severe effects of climate change. While urban areas are not uniformly prosperous and…

Their message isn’t new, but it is gaining urgency as funding for green energy projects grows.

Understanding the appeal of disinformation can tell us something about how to defend against it, new research suggests.

When an electric company runs a coal- or natural gas-fired power plant, the greenhouse gases it releases cause harm – but the company isn’t paying for the damage. Instead, the…

New research shows women and people of color are underrepresented in the potential workforce for high-quality clean energy jobs. Universities, employers, and unions can play a role in creating a more diverse workforce.

Coffee trees are acutely sensitive to small changes in the weather. Too much sun or too little, too much rain or too little, can play havoc with the flowering and…

Loneliness is an epidemic. How is the climate crisis contributing to social isolation, and can nonprofits and new legislation help?

Grassroots nonprofits can apply a systems thinking approach only if their ecosystem of funders, intermediaries, and larger nonprofits embrace it as well.

A global perspective on environmental issues. Our mission is to inform, educate, enable and create a platform for global environmental action.

Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank fighting for the right to a homeland, and for their basic right to water—which Israel continues to deny.

Spend time in a developing country during a heat wave and it quickly becomes clear why poorer nations face some of the greatest risks from climate change. Most homes don’t…

Practices such as redlining left marginalized groups in more disaster-prone areas with poorer quality infrastructure − and more likely to experience prolonged power outages.