These are difficult times for environmental protection. In recent years there has been growing opposition to many of the regulatory approaches that are the foundation of the nation’s environmental ...

An increasing number of publicly accessible environmental justice (EJ)-related mapping or screening tools have been created by federal agencies, states, regional planning agencies, and municipalities, ...

WILKES-BARRE — According to Jill Avery-Stoss, president of The Institute, a healthy environment is essential to a community’s overall well-being. “It supports not only physical and mental health but ...

Major indicators of climate change in the past three years include the loss of Alaskan permafrost, more severe summer heat waves in U.S. cities and the recession of winter ice in the Great Lakes, ...

April 17, 2019 — In 2015, the United Nations’ 193 member states established an agenda for the future: 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to meet by 2030. The goals encompass economic, social and ...

Streamlined, transparent building regulations can lower disaster risks across income levels, primarily by enhancing economies’ capacities to anticipate, prepare for, recover, and learn from natural ...

The Great Scientific Expedition continues the work of the Norilsk Nickel Company and the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch, which began in 2020 on the Taymyr Peninsula TASS, March 19. The ...