My local newspaper in Evansville, Indiana, recently published two letters on the editorial page denying that climate change is caused by human activity. After those letters ran, a friend of mine found herself in a discussion with a woman who said there are respected scientists...

Anyone who has dealt with an unpleasant or even life-threatening situation knows that the first step to coping with such a challenge is to learn the facts. If water is dripping into your living room when it rains, you have to find out where the...

Air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk according to new estimates released by WHO, showing that in 2012 around 7 million people died — one in eight of total global deaths — as a result of air pollution. 4.3 million of...

On Earth Day, April 22, the American Masters series on PBS is presenting A Fierce Green Fire, a documentary which timelines the environmental movement’s past five decades. Beginning in the 1960s, the one-hour film is chock full of backstory that contextualizes where the struggle is...

“Our children no longer learn how to read the Great Book of Nature from their own direct experience or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water comes from or where it goes. We no longer...