For decades, Canadian waterways have carried toxic mine waste through natural ecosystems, into tribal lands and across the U.S. border. A coalition of indigenous leaders and scientists are now calling for international protection. ...read more
A 962-square-mile section of Lake Michigan was designated a U.S. National Marine Sanctuary in 2021, along the shores of Wisconsin. ...read more
Wastewater’s gone mainstream. Epidemiologists and public health officials are using Chicago’s labyrinth of century-old sewer lines to track and even predict COVID-19 pandemic trends. ...read more
Many parts of the Japanese prefecture near the nuclear disaster are already quite free from contamination ...read more
Humans are still evolving, and modern technology and culture both play a role. ...read more
In recent decades, scientists have accumulated striking evidence of environmental shifts driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions. ...read more
Batten down the hatches! A rust-eating microbe called Halomonas titanicae may completely disintegrate the shipwreck within your lifetime. ...read more
An ambitious project at Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt is preserving thousands of manuscripts with crucial insights into our earliest written history. ...read more