Shoppers often misjudge food’s environmental impact, overlooking beef and water use while overestimating processed foods.

People often get the environmental impact of food wrong, according to new research. While many assume processed foods are the worst, they tend to overlook the surprisingly high impact of items like ...

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, ...

Environmental engineering combines scientific and engineering principles to improve and maintain the environment in order to protect human health, natural resources, and natural environments.

Americans are far more likely to say the effects of climate change will make their local community a worse rather than better place to live over the next 30 years, but many also say they don’t expect ...

While most of the abandoned mines in New Hampshire are not producing significant contamination, there are a few that have. (Courtesy of Trout Unlimited) With little attention in the media, except in a ...

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 ...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) enter the air from gasoline, pesticides, tobacco smoke, and thousands of other products and processes. They can increase the risk of airway problems and other health ...

A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines the potential environmental, social, and economic effects that could unfold over the ...