Our oceans are threatened by three major challenges: climate change, overfishing and pollution. Plastic pollution is of growing concern, and has gained international attention from…
When water shortages loomed in Chennai, India, one man’s campaign to conserve rainwater saved the day July 10, 2018 — Twenty-five years ago, Chennai, a…
Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region is an area with a fairly favourable climate, home to high plant biodiversity. In spring, several species of feather, sheep fescue…
Calls for strict science-based decision making on complex issues like GMOs and geoengineering can shortchange consideration of ethics and social impacts. “Your scientists were so…
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue” John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) Most…
Climate change is a multifaceted phenomenon but is also iniquitous. It affects the most disadvantaged countries harder. In a papal encyclical letter called “Laudato Si”…
Out of sight, out of mind, they say. I’m originally from Finland, a country that prides itself on having the purest air in the world,…
Are American lawns beautiful visions of nature? Or ecological calamities? Unfortunately, the grass leaves in our parks leave havoc in their wake. Lawns are extremely…
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, affirms an ecological vision that is in line with progressive environmental thought. Is it mere rhetoric or does it have a…
By requiring planners to consider impacts on society and the environment as well as economics, New Zealand is setting a much-needed example for other nations….
Emissions of CO2 and methane from wetlands and thawing permafrost as the climate warms could cut the “carbon budget” for the Paris Agreement temperature limits…
It is a well-known fact that burning fossil fuels causes the buildup of greenhouse gases which leads to global warming. This results in melting permafrost…
When the improper disposal of wastewater from the construction site of a joint shopping center and apartment complex threatened to contaminate hundreds of residents’ water…
Solutions to floods, droughts and pollution that look upstream, downstream and everywhere in between save dollars and make sense. The Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District in…
International shipping produces as much CO2 as aircraft. Here’s what we can do about that. May 3, 2018 — Watch out for the return of…
The combined effects of global warming and land-use change could cause the world’s ecosystems to lose more than a third of their animal species by…