This year, Earth Day falls on a Saturday, April 22, providing a perfect opportunity to turn the day into an “environmental Shabbat.” Shabbat is a reminder of creation, as the Bible writes after six ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting from Europe, Jeff McMahon covers the environment. It’s clear enough from the discarded masks and gloves polluting ...

Linda Ryan, a Northampton Elementary fifth-grade science and social studies teacher, spent a week this summer finding ways to motivate children and teachers in her community. Ryan was one of 45 ...

In 1970, Americans could see, feel, and smell the effects of pollution in their daily lives. Rivers were catching on fire. Smog hung over cities like a thick fog. That year, Senator Gaylord Nelson ...

When two teenage boys were caught on video dumping two garbage cans of trash into the Atlantic Ocean after the Boca Bash boating party a couple of weeks ago, Rodney Barreto, chairman of the Florida ...

Rachel Carson is credited with launching the modern environmental movement with her landmark book, "Silent Spring" (Carson, 1962). She documented and decried the widespread harm caused by pesticides ( ...

From tide pools at Abalone Cove to the Bering Straits in Alaska, Fountain Valley High teach Lisa Battig has an abiding interest in environmental science. (Photo courtesy Lisa Battig) Students in Lisa ...

Three hundred sixth-graders at Marley Middle School got their hands dirty this past week learning about erosion. Among the lessons they learned: Science class is a lot more fun when chalkboards and ...

Green Travel. Eco-friendly travel. Sustainable tourism. It all means the same thing. According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization, sustainable tourism can be defined simply as ‘tourism ...

At the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierras, Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp, becomes the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” Intergenerational ...