Does forest thinning, a land management strategy, offer an effective solution to the problem of forest fires?

They may look like random puddles, but some states are building million-dollar tunnels to direct wildlife to these seasonal refuges.

Mainstream economics has largely neglected to integrate ecological systems into its models. But the two disciplines don't have to be diametrically opposed.

Susan Fenimore Cooper, known as her father James Fenimore Cooper's secretary, is now being recognized as one of the nation's first environmentalists.

It's been 55 years since the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The massive amounts of fallout in the decade previous to the Treaty taught us a lot about the interconnected planet we live on.

Americans dispose of about 12.8 million tons of textiles annually. Fashion has a major impact on the environment. So what is the industry doing about it?

Bambi has had a pervasive influence on how Americans view nature, and that might not be such a good thing.

The science is clear: composting organic waste is good for the environment. 

In a 1998 paper in Environmental History, Scott Dewey argues that unions were a key force for the emerging cause of environmentalism in the 1950s and '60s.