Biomass combined-heat-and-power plants should be one of the tools we use to help retire grossly inefficient coal-burners.

Germany’s decades-long shift from from coal to renewable energy has brought both challenge and opportunity — and there are lessons for the rest of the world ...

Recent woes have drawn unprecedented attention to the worth of fresh, clean water. Can it change the way we pay for the world’s most undervalued resource?

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Scandinavian-style sustainability: Wind turbines, bicycling, clean air & water. How do they do that?

Through innovative partnerships and exchanges with neighbors, the Gila River Indian Community is ensuring that its members have long-term access to their own resources while helping solve broader ...

January 21, 2015 — Conservation biology and restoration ecology have been roiled by a bandwagon termed “novel ecosystems,” heralded as the “new ecological world order” in a manifesto published in 2006 ...

The world’s gene banks hold bounties of diversity and they are vital to food security, especially in the face of climate change.

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The herbicide glyphosate is ending up in our food, thanks to the growing practice of using it to dry crops in preparation for harvest.