Will the Great Lakes, one of the natural wonders of the United States, be allowed to go to court to defend their rights to exist on equal terms with the human race? Last month, a bill was introduced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 2017 New Zealand law recognizes inherent rights of the Whanganui River. Jason Pratt, CC BY-SA While the dangerous effects of ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Hispanic Heritage Month, WCS and Nature are sharing stories of nature and conservation. For as long as I can remember, I ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. The world today faces a convergence of crises – environmental, economic, ...

Environment policy encompasses the vast suite of legal, economic and institutional instruments that governments and international bodies employ to manage humanity’s impact on the natural world. It ...

Natural resource management is the practice of sustainably using and protecting natural resources. Natural resources include land, water, air, minerals, forests, fish, and wildlife. Managing natural ...

Is living in a leafy neighborhood enough to improve your mental health? Not necessarily. What matters most is frequent ...

Picture a classroom where children struggle to concentrate as temperatures soar past 80 degrees, their aging school building's broken air conditioning no match for another record-breaking heat wave.

At a time when more than half the world’s population lives in cities and people spend about 90 percent of their lives indoors, our relationship with the natural world has never been more distant or ...

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