Sustainability science is an emerging field of academic research. Sustainability scientists focus on understanding and addressing the complex interactions between humans and the natural world from an ...

Climate change represents one of humanity’s most significant existential threats, adversely impacting ecosystems, human health, and social systems globally. Recent studies highlight how climate change ...

As an environmental science major, you'll learn how to use chemistry, calculus, statistics and other disciplines to understand and improve the environment. Typical courses and labs cover ecology, ...

Most environmental issues in the news today, while manifested in biophysical realities, are ultimately linked to historically-rooted, economic, political and cultural drivers that shape power ...

A third would be to define sets of environmental, social, and economic indicators needed for studying multiple-variable issues in the environmental sciences, and to invest in the observational systems ...

Environmental scientist and sustainability expert Jonathan Foley, PhD, will deliver this year’s Campus Sustainability Lecture on Oct. 23. The lecture, titled “Drawdown — A Science-Based, Hopeful Plan ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

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