Land management could be key in climate change battle
To combat climate change, every country on Earth could stop the burning of oil completely. Or they could simply pay attention to the way they manage their land. In a groundbreaking new study — led...
Environmental politics on the other side of the Atlantic
Last week the Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, addressed environmental graduate and undergraduate students in Trinity. The event took a debate format, wherein...
Samsung, LG in bottom tier for eco-friendly performance: Greenpeace
Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. were among the least environment-friendly IT companies worldwide in terms of their use of renewable energy and harmful chemicals, a report by...
Cleanup From California Fires Poses Environmental and Health Risks
Dr. Karen Relucio has heard reports of people digging into the ashes of their burned homes in recent days without gloves, wearing only shorts and T-shirts, looking for sentimental items that might...
Yazd, manifestation of ancient civilization
Yazd in central Iran has been a manifestation of the brightest cultural heritage and ancient civilization throughout history with human settlement in Yazd dating back to the third millennium BCE....
In Focus: Iceland Leaves Enormous Environmental Footprint
Iceland is renowned as a ‘green’ country in many ways, yet it certainly does have its dark sides in terms of environmental impact. The nation’s highly consumerist ways leave an astoundingly large...
Modified Russian missile boosts Europe’s newest environmental sentinel to space
A European satellite that will collect daily air quality measurements over every major city on Earth rode an uprated Russian ballistic missile into orbit Friday. Assembled in Britain with a...
Could techno-fixes and gene therapies really save the world’s coral?
As the metaphorical canary in the global warming coalmine goes, the planet’s coral reefs are hard to beat. Swathes of corals in all tropical basins have been hit by the longest mass bleaching...
