Positive feelings about the environment reached a record low in America, according to the latest Gallup poll. Sixty-six percent of U.S. adults said that they think the environment's quality is ...

Nate Rott's beat takes him to some really wild places, asking thorny ethical questions that emerge as he reports on the natural world and humanity's relationship to it ...

A new Gallup survey found that a record-low 35 percent of American respondents rated the quality of their country’s environment positively, just more than a week before Earth Day. The firm’s annual ...

In the 1970s, Americans were told we were in a global cooling crisis and if something weren’t done, we’d enter a new ice age. When that didn’t happen, a few decades later we were told that entire ...

Here’s a thoroughly modern riddle: what links the battery in your smartphone with a dead yak floating down a Tibetan river? The answer is lithium – the reactive alkali metal that powers our phones, ...

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Most people are “very” or “extremely” concerned about the state of the natural world, a new global public opinion survey shows. Just under 40 percent of respondents said technological advances can ...

By: Karina V. R. Schäfer (Rutgers University Newark, NJ) & Dirk W. Vanderklein (Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ) © 2011 Nature Education All plant growth ...

Our environment has a silent but profound influence on our daily behaviors. While many assume that habits are built (and broken) on sheer willpower and motivation, the reality is that our surroundings ...