Events such as the deadly tornadoes that hit the U.S. midwest last weekend will become increasingly commonplace occurrences as climate change takes root, the leading U.S. emergency-management official said Sunday. Deanne Criswell, head of the Federal ...
If the United States wants better air quality and environmental health, it should start with its trains, according to researchers in California. In an article published in Nature Energy, they state that replacing diesel-powered trains with ...
While millions of people around the world go hungry, developed nations throw away enormous amounts of edible food: Around 88 million tons of food every year are wasted thus in the European Union alone, according to ...
Cities looking for ways to reduce flooding could do so by planting more trees, suggests a University of Maryland study published in Scientific Reports. The researchers found that urban trees–even single trees standing in a park ...
The EPA has announced that its 20-year cleanup of a former copper mine in Strafford is coming to an end, and that it will turn over site monitoring to Vermont authorities. The EPA project manager, Ed ...
