A treaty to protect the high seas will not come to life by the time the UN Oceans Conference opens in June, but persistence ...

A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities recently published a study in the journal Scientific Data ...

Fifty-five years ago, on April 22, 1970, the world took note of its burning rivers and acrid air. An overdue shift in ...

At sunrise and sunset many Ghanaian households strike the match to burn charcoal or wood to heat water and prepare meals.

More than 1,500 volunteers signed up to clean the Anacostia River at 33 sites along the waterfront on Saturday in honor of ...

The Galápagos Islands are famous worldwide for their one-of-a-kind plants and animals. If you’re lucky enough to explore the ...

Arbor Day was celebrated in Connecticut on April 25. Since it is a day traditionally set aside for the planting of trees, ...

You have this convergence of crises,” says Dr. Angelle Desiree LaBeaud. Here’s what that means and how she and others are ...

Public health experts, doctors, and economists called for the immediate strengthening of the nation's tobacco control law, emphasising that any delay will only exacerbate the already alarming death ra ...

Plastic pollution along selected Australian coastlines has dropped by 39 percent in a decade, according to research by CSIRO, ...