Drexel University, in partnership with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, has launched a new platform, The Environmental Collaboratory, focused on climate change, environmental ...

On 14 August, exhausted UN delegates filed into a windowless plenary hall, after hours of intensive debate and little sleep, to watch their hopes of a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution ...

Imagine someone has chronic pain. One doctor focuses on the body part that hurts and keeps trying to fix that single symptom.

While most of the abandoned mines in New Hampshire are not producing significant contamination, there are a few that have. (Courtesy of Trout Unlimited) With little attention in the media, except in a ...

The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss ...

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The EPI, published by Yale University, evaluates 58 indicators in 11 categories, including air pollution, water resources, waste management, deforestation, fisheries management, and heavy metal ...

SAN DIEGO — Approximately 310 million pounds of plastic packaging is produced in the world every year. In fact, soft plastic packaging does not belong in your blue recycling bin because it jams up ...

"Long-standing environmental issues" in Paisley's Gallowhill – such as litter, fly-tipping and pest problems – are set to be tackled as part of a £150,000 budget pledge by Renfrewshire Council.

Although the class is the result of new state science standards, it also helps students investigate some of the most pressing issues of their day. Science teacher Richard Jopp checks in with, from ...