There is something humbling about realizing that the most urgent climate questions we wrestle with today were, in many ways, already being answered decades ago. Scientists, policymakers, and ordinary ...

Environmental justice is the social justice expression of environmental ethics. The environmental justice movement emerged to challenge the unfair distribution of toxic, hazardous and dangerous waste ...

In 1970, Americans could see, feel, and smell the effects of pollution in their daily lives. Rivers were catching on fire. Smog hung over cities like a thick fog. That year, Senator Gaylord Nelson ...

The use of silver nanoparticles to clean clothes and the use of magnetite nanoparticles to clean water provide contrasting illustrations of the potential environmental consequences of nanotechnology, ...

All the religions of the world have traditionally expressed some ethical concern for the environment and its creatures. They have accorded some moral significance to other creatures, and proposed some ...

From tide pools at Abalone Cove to the Bering Straits in Alaska, Fountain Valley High teach Lisa Battig has an abiding interest in environmental science. (Photo courtesy Lisa Battig) Students in Lisa ...

This year, Earth Day falls on a Saturday, April 22, providing a perfect opportunity to turn the day into an “environmental Shabbat.” Shabbat is a reminder of creation, as the Bible writes after six ...

Wetlands along the Rio Grande have long been in decline, but a group of El Paso students are restoring this vital habitat for migratory birds and Chihuahuan Desert plants and animals. Instead of just ...

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When two teenage boys were caught on video dumping two garbage cans of trash into the Atlantic Ocean after the Boca Bash boating party a couple of weeks ago, Rodney Barreto, chairman of the Florida ...