Climate change and environmental destruction are becoming increasingly central to the human rights movement. Droughts, toxic pollution, water shortages, desertification, severe storms and related ...

There hasn’t been any real doubt that humans cause environmental issues in the world for a long time. There also hasn’t been much doubt that we cause issues with biodiversity. There has, however, been ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the composition of species communities is also changing. This is one of the ...

Some of the environmental factors are modifiable, the researchers said. Nature versus nurture: Scientists are gathering more evidence on which has more of an impact on human well-being amid the aging ...

The field of environmental studies examines the complex relationships between humans and the natural world. Like environmental science, students of environmental studies learn about ecology, biology, ...

Alessandro Antonello is Associate Professor of Environmental History at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is the author of The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...