Tag: environment
Why Trump’s move to gut the Endangered Species Act likely won’t...
Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School
The Trump administration has decided that destroying the habitat of endangered species...
Microplastics are everywhere in Pennsylvania’s water – but the tide may...
Nathaniel Warner, Penn State; Lisa Emili, Penn State, and Raymond Najjar, Penn State
Researchers have long known that plastic...
Will future missions to the Moon be sustainable? It may depend...
Marco A. Janssen, Arizona State University; Afreen Siddiqi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Parvathy Prem, Johns Hopkins University
The missing link in America’s critical minerals push isn’t mining –...
Hélène Nguemgaing, University of Maryland and Alan Collins, West Virginia University
The United States is spending billions of dollars...
Thoreau the scientist – how environmental research informed ‘Walden’ and later works
Robert M. Thorson, University of Connecticut
The steam locomotive chugged its way toward Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 15, 1859....
Toxic dust from California’s shrinking Salton Sea is harming children’s lung...
Jill Johnston, University of California, Irvine; University of Southern California and Shohreh Farzan, University of Southern California
Southern California’s...
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
Scientists may be overestimating the amount of microplastics in the environment...
Anne McNeil, University of Michigan and Madeline Clough, University of Michigan
It seems like every day a new study...
EXPLORING NATURE
From ancient texts to modern practices, Daoism provides a profound framework...
Michael Naparstek, University of Tennessee
Daoism, China’s indigenous religion, is one of the country’s five officially recognized religions today....
