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Gender

Owning Property Empowers Women In Unique Ways”: An Interview With Bina Agarwal

Bina Agarwal is a Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK. Prior to this, she was the Director and Professor of Economics at ...

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Environment

Here's The Most Detailed Picture Yet Of How Much The World's Oceans Are Warming

But to truly understand the remarkable ways in which human emissions are altering Earth's climate system, scientists need to find out what is going in the world's oceans. T...

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Environment

United Nations Asks For Help For Drought-Ravaged Ethiopia

This year's El Ni?o weather system has hit hard in East Africa, causing the severe drought in Ethiopia and flooding in Somalia. The current drought comes more than two deca...

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Festivals

18th Annual Environmental Film Festival Returns To Eckerd

It is free and open to the public. This year’s festival includes two films—Embrace the Serpent and How to Let Go of the World (and Love All the Things Climate C...

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Environment

18th Annual Environmental Film Festival Returns To Eckerd

It is free and open to the public. This year?s festival includes two films?Embrace the Serpent and How to Let Go of the World (and Love All the Things Climate Can?t Change)...

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Environment

This Pesticide Might Be Killing Off Bees

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said residues of the pesticide imidacloprid, which is sold under a variety of brand names, "potentially poses risk to hives whe...

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Environment

Global Warming Could Delay The Next Ice Age By 100,000 Years

In a study published this Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research make clear that anthropogenic carbon emissions...

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Environment

Apathy And Progress Are Killing Turkey's Famous Flamingo Lake

Inside the yard, mountains of the blindingly bright salt are piled three stories high by a conveyer belt being fed by a convoy of trucks. Except for three men sitting aroun...

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Environment

All Of The Reasons Scientists Are Certain We Are Now Living In The Anthropocene

What follows in “The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene,” a new study published in Science, is a laundry list of huma...

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Environment

There’s Not Much Snow In The Alps — So Petting Zoos Are Replacing Skiing

The holiday season in the Alps this year was one of the driest in recent memory. According to Laurent Vanat, a winter sports consultant based in Geneva, the overall economi...

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