Earth Day just hit its 50th birthday. Wednesday marked 50 years since Earth Day was started in 1970, according to the Earth Day website. The day was started by Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson and took ...

This article originally appeared in Ensia and is published here with permission. As a child growing up in Los Angeles, Erynn Castellanos would spend hours exploring her grandmother’s backyard garden, ...

In the late 1980s, Peggy Shepard helped lead the charge against noxious emissions wafting from a sewage plant in her Harlem neighborhood, a fight that forced New York City to enact fixes and spurred ...

In the last few years we’ve witnessed a climate awakening. More people than ever agree that climate change is a major threat. There is also a growing awareness that, as David Attenborough put it to ...

Coastal Science and Policy Program graduate student Kalina Browne led development of a research report, released on World Ocean’s Day, that can help guide environmental organizations toward better ...

While U.S. union density hit an all-time low in 2019, the nonprofit sector appears to be one area where workers are unionizing. The Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU) brought seven new ...

The movement for a cleaner, greener world has grown increasingly popular as the climate crisis has worsened, and organizations such as Greenpeace and World Wildlife Fund, now household names, have ...

Northwestern has almost 20 different environmental student organizations and while each club is independent, Associate Director of Sustainability Julie Cahillane said she saw the potential for these ...

A UCLA student organization wants to help businesses run clean and green. Clean Consulting, a student-led environmental consulting group, examines and suggests ways on-campus and off-campus ...

Students from Boston University’s Environmental Student Organization and Boston’s chapter of The Urban Garden Initiative paint a community mural April 30. The collaboration was a two and a half-year ...