Many of the world’s great cities grew around rivers. The modern city also relies, at least in part, on the bottom of a river. Because before concrete becomes a building or a highway, dredgers and ...

Every loaf of bread has a carbon footprint, a supply chain and a workforce behind it. As climate change, food safety and labor rights attract growing attention, corporate disclosures on environmental, ...

More than 99% of the world’s 7.7 billion people have one or more of their environmental rights threatened, according to new research. In the most comprehensive analysis of inequality in environmental ...

The fact that plastics pollute the environment and generate problems has been well-researched in many areas. However, there is little information on the impacts of plastics on climate and biodiversity ...

For all its urgency in the real world, climate change is largely absent from the stories shaping contemporary culture, according to new research by scholars at Rice University and Colby College. “To ...

Imagine someone has chronic pain. One doctor focuses on the body part that hurts and keeps trying to fix that single symptom. Another uses a more comprehensive brain-body approach and tries to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kathleen Walch covers AI, ML, and big data best practices. Jun 18, 2025, 04:31am EDT AI is both accelerating environmental ...

Environmental engineering combines scientific and engineering principles to improve and maintain the environment in order to protect human health, natural resources, and natural environments.

The field of environmental studies examines the complex relationships between humans and the natural world. Like environmental science, students of environmental studies learn about ecology, biology, ...

Wales prides itself in being a pioneer in environmental policy. It was the first country in the world to adopt a statutory duty for public bodies to make development sustainable, in 2015. Yet, ...

The incumbent senator, once endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters, is facing strong headwinds due in part to her ...