environment

Panelist for the online event on the environmental impact of the war in Ukraine.

LIVE Event: The Environmental Cost of the War in Ukraine

Join The World’s Carolyn Beeler for a conversation with Ukrainian environmental scientist Kateryna Polyanska and Doug Weir from The Conflict and Environment Observatory.

Rancher Bill Johnson and wildlife researcher Carol Bogezi on Johnson's ranch in Washington's Teanaway Valley. Bogezi has been working with Johnson and other ranchers in eastern Washington to try to find a way to help them live more amicably with wolves.

How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda

NYU professor studying the way humans use transportation

Containers with toxic cargo spill into ocean off New Zealand

Company making detergent bottles out of ocean plastic

Manatees’ growing dependence on power plants for survival

Manatees have come to rely on power plants as a source of warm water, but that could become a problem in the future.

Generation Hot: Impact of climate change on children

A new father comes to terms with his hopes and fears for his daughter’s future with climate change, and the solutions he came across.

Strange weather and climate change

A meteorologist connects the dots between the recent floods, tornadoes, blizzards and climate change.

How to keep kids safe in a toxic world

Environmental dangers are nearly ubiquitous in the modern world. Parents need to figure out a way to confront the environmental crisis to keep their children safe.

Squash bee

If you like squash, you can thank this one particular pollinator

Thousands of species pollinate our plants and guarantee our food, but one particular bee specializes in the squash family. As ancestral farmers spread the cultivation of squashes through the Americas, the squash bee followed.