Climate change, pollution, environmental degradation and resource depletion are just a few of the greatest challenges facing the world in the 21st century. Tackling these challenges means carrying out ...

Pollution causes more illness and early death than any other environmental threat, accounting for one in six deaths worldwide. For decades, the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of ...

The built environment and design represent an integrative field that combines architectural innovation, engineering practice and digital technologies to create structures and spaces which are both ...

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania is exploring closer cooperation with the Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) as part of efforts to strengthen ...

On a trip to Siberia in 2019, cognitive scientist Pablo Fernandez Velasco attended a raffle drawing with the region’s Evenki reindeer herders. Prizes included a soccer ball, tea, a portable radio, a ...

As we enter the third decade of the 21st Century, and, especially in recent years, the achievements made by scientists have been exceptional—driving major ...

For the 2026-2028 Application Cycle, the Environment Track focuses on Ecosystem Health - Monitoring and Managing for Environmental Change. This track invites research that leverages innovative ...

Oil spill research has rapidly evolved into a multidisciplinary field that examines the sources, dispersal, environmental fate, and long-term ecological impacts of accidental releases. The breadth of ...

California has a robust if little-known agency that conducts research to protect people from harmful exposures It could take on a bigger role now that the federal government is eliminating its own ...

Research on the human dimensions of global change concerns human activities that alter the Earth's environment, the driving forces of those activities, the consequences of environmental change for ...