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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting from Europe, Jeff McMahon covers the environment. It’s clear enough from the discarded masks and gloves polluting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. I know I’m a little late but every day should be Earth Day. Larry Magid (Gary Reyes / Mercury News) I usually commemorate Earth Day by writing about ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linda Ryan, a Northampton Elementary fifth-grade science and social studies teacher, spent a week this summer finding ways to motivate children and teachers in her community. Ryan was one of 45 ...

Dad and I pored over the map, scanning state by state as we tallied our visits to America’s National Parks. “I’ve still got you beat by two,” Dad said at last. “So don’t go taking any more road trips.

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, March 23, 2007) - The Army took cues from the National Football League on reducing negative impacts on the environment during a lecture on sustainability hosted by the ...