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Do Oil and Fashion Mix Well? Maybe Not

What does the Strait of Hormuz have to do with your local H&M? A lot, it turns out, and the thorny intersection of fashion, the […]

Superfund FY26 – Reading the Tea Leaves

Unlike the previous Trump Administration’s focus on the Superfund Program through the Superfund Task Force, this administration’s focus for the program has been less forthcoming. […]

The Environmental Benefits of Mushrooms are, Well, Mushrooming

Consider the mushroom. This humble fungus plays many roles in our lives—a beloved (or detested) pizza topping, a plot device for a murder mystery, signs […]

Lighter Roofs That Can Soothe Ever-Warming Urban Environments: Wouldn’t That Be Cool?

Let’s check in on cool roofs—an answer to the urban heat island effect, whereby built-up areas in urban areas absorb and retain more of the […]

Protecting the Rainforest is an Amazonian Task—and the World’s Environment Depends on it

The Amazon rainforest stands alone among Earth’s biomes for its size, diversity, and critical importance to environmental health. Home to 10 percent of the world’s […]

Biodiversity: Diverse? Yes. Simple? People are Trying

Biodiversity is, at once, a seemingly simple and straightforward concept, and yet one that is so complex and overarching as to touch every aspect of […]

The Lead Exposure Elimination Project (“LEEP”)

In the often-uncertain and contentious field of environmental health and safety, one of the few areas of absolute certainty is the deleterious effects of lead […]

Forest Trends

For decades, the environmental community has known that deforestation is a major threat to ecosystems across the globe, and an existential concern for many of […]