For Duke student Nicholas Nease, climate change has never been a distant or abstract concept—it’s something he has seen reshape the place he calls home. Growing up in Florida, Nease saw people raise ...

WUHAN, CHINA - OCTOBER 29: (CHINA OUT) A worker sorts used plastic bottles at a plastics recycling mill which is ceasing production as the global financial crisis starts to bite in China's recycling ...

We tend to look at environmental problems in isolation. A holistic approach would be more effective, a new report says. By Catrin Einhorn Sometimes, human needs can make problems like climate change ...

Is the textile and fashion industry environmentally unfriendly? Inoue: Globally, the textile and fashion industry accounts for 10% of all industries in terms of CO2 emissions, making it the ...

The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss ...

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, ...

If the medical community is a caregiving army, then nurses are the enlisted corps. They’re the in-the-trenches troops with the cloth chevrons of the sergeant or the corporal sewn on their sleeves, not ...

Just about 40 miles from our WEMU studios sits a 440-acre lake plain prairie. It’s called the Sibley Prairie, and you’ll find ...