FreeWind power is a prime example of clean energy that does not emit greenhouse gases during operation. However, when looking ...

As our first modern environmental statute, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has come to play a central role in the protection of human and ecological communities. Signed into law by ...

Say a pound of beef costs $5.34 at your local supermarket. That price, according to researchers, leaves out something important: beef’s heavy environmental toll. Add in things like deforestation and ...

Last fall, the Fifth National Climate Assessment—a quadrennial analysis from the U.S. Global Change Research Program—outlined the country’s dire climate status. Among several takeaways, it revealed ...

At the outset of the Cold War and the dawn of the era of nuclear competition, the United States and the Soviet Union worked quickly to develop large stockpiles of weapons and to demonstrate the power ...

Diagnosing the environmental sustainability of the internet might seem, at first, like trying to figure out where the molecules of water in your morning cup of coffee originated. Water is constantly ...

Your dinner might have a bigger environmental footprint than you think. When people think about helping the environment, they ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a case that could reduce the scope of one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws. The case deals with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), ...