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Peter Schlosser has spent his career studying the natural world and humanity’s place within it. Few people are better placed to understand how this relationship is breaking down and the scale of ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine serve as the U.S. National Representative Body for the Frontiers Planet Prize. The 5th edition of the Prize is now open. U.S. universities ...

With Earth Day coming up April 22, now is an ideal time to take action in your life to help protect the health of the planet. If you are someone who enjoys breathing clean air, getting outside to ...

A pressing global problem is how to keep eight billion people fed and healthy while also protecting the planet. Sustainable, functional produce — such as fruit — is part of the solution. Functional ...

Multiple dangers face our native planet today, including the loss of biodiversity, climate change, and plastic pollution. The focus of environmentally-minded scientists today is to protect the earth’s ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Brought up watching nature’s grandeur in Indian Kashmir, Dr. Sakib Burza’s early inspiration in medicine began at home before he went on to work ...

Consumers are often blamed for making the wrong food choices. But growing evidence appears to be demonstrating that individual choices are actually shaped by their food environments. These ...

“Last week, I dreamt I unfolded a map,” Christina Rivera writes in her collection My Oceans: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women. “I kept unfolding the map, to a long river-meandering length.” Reading ...