Americans, especially millennials, are embracing plant-based meat products
Sheril Kirshenbaum, Michigan State University and Douglas Buhler, Michigan State University By 2050, many scientists…
Flying colors: Researcher reveals hidden world through the eyes of butterflies
Adriana Briscoe, University of California, Irvine An award-winning scientist and professor of evolutionary biology, Adriana…
A teen scientist helped me discover tons of golf balls polluting the ocean
Matthew Savoca, Stanford University Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has become a global environmental…
California polluters may soon buy carbon “offsets” from the Amazon
Maron Greenleaf, Dartmouth College Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have outraged the world. But what…
USGBC-LA Announces First Cohort of ‘Net Zero Accelerator’
The U.S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles Chapter (USGBC-LA) has announced the first cohort of its Net Zero Accelerator,…
How to have an all-renewable electric grid
David Timmons, University of Massachusetts Boston The main solution to climate change is well known…
Career guidance for kids is our best hope for climate change
Stefania Maggi, Carleton University We all care, at some level, about our planet and for…
Status Quo is Not an Option: Environmental literacy and classrooms that can save the world
An interview with Andra Yeghoian By Carl Smith Andra Yeghoian is the Environmental Literacy Coordinator…
Building, Teaching, Learning: Finding the educational opportunities in facility projects
An interview with Timothy Baird, Ed.D. Timothy Baird, Ed.D., recently retired from his position as…
Are shared e-scooters good for the planet? Only if they replace car trips
Jeremiah Johnson, North Carolina State University Shared dockless electric scooters, or e-scooters, transport riders over…
Why science needs the humanities to solve climate change
Steven D. Allison, University of California, Irvine and Tyrus Miller, University of California, Irvine Large…
40 years ago, scientists predicted climate change. And hey, they were right
Neville Nicholls, Monash University This month the world has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of…
Resource depletion is a serious problem, but ‘footprint’ estimates don’t tell us much about it
Robert B. Richardson, Michigan State University Experts widely agree that human activities are harming the…
Can protecting land promote employment? In New England, the answer is yes
Katharine Sims, Amherst College; Jonathan Thompson, Harvard University, and Spencer Meyer, Harvard University Protecting land…
US agriculture needs a 21st-century New Deal
Maywa Montenegro, University of California, Davis; Annie Shattuck, University of California, Berkeley, and Joshua Sbicca,…
Listening to nature: How sound can help us understand environmental change
Garth Paine, Arizona State University Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind,…
Retired oil rigs off the California coast could find new lives as artificial reefs
Ann Scarborough Bull, University of California, Santa Barbara and Milton Love, University of California, Santa…
As more developing countries reject plastic waste exports, wealthy nations seek solutions at home
Kate O’Neill, University of California, Berkeley Less than two years after China banned most imports…
To solve climate change and biodiversity loss, we need a Global Deal for Nature
Greg Asner, Arizona State University Earth’s cornucopia of life has evolved over 550 million years….
Why reducing carbon emissions from cars and trucks will be so hard
David Keith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Christopher R. Knittel, MIT Sloan School of Management…
Is recycling an idea whose time has passed?
Neil Seldman, Director, Waste to Wealth Initiative, Institute for Local Self-Reliance If you read accounts of recycling…
Is an ‘insect apocalypse’ happening? How would we know?
Brian Lovett, University of Maryland Insects scuttle, chew and fly through the world around us….
Sea creatures store carbon in the ocean – could protecting them help slow climate change?
Heidi Pearson, University of Alaska Southeast As the prospect of catastrophic effects from climate change…
When people downsize to tiny houses, they adopt more environmentally friendly lifestyles
Maria Saxton, Virginia Tech Interest is surging in tiny homes – livable dwelling units that…