Imagine someone has chronic pain. One doctor focuses on the body part that hurts and keeps trying to fix that single symptom.

Environmental data scientists use computing and mathematics to develop sustainable solutions for environmental problems. Environmental data scientists balance and combine expertise from multiple ...

The field of environmental studies examines the complex relationships between humans and the natural world. Like environmental science, students of environmental studies learn about ecology, biology, ...

With an environmental science degree, you can monitor ecosystems, engineer green tech, write policy, and advise companies. Find roles that range from field scientist to sustainability consultant.

Researchers in the Midwest are studying the economic and ecological impacts of mature trees that have protected many Iowa ...

WHAT IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST? Environmental scientists collect data samples for air, soil, water and other materials to identify environmental impacts for studies and surveys. These samples help ...

Studying soil carbon dynamics in a semidesert agroecosystem like the Texas High Plains might seem an unexpected place for a scientist who grew up in a city in tropical Brazil. Carolina Brandani, Ph.D.

WASHINGTON — Humans are on track to release so much greenhouse gas in less than three years that a key threshold for limiting global warming will be nearly unavoidable, according to a study to be ...

A small team of architects and environmental scientists from Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, both in China, has estimated that more than 1 billion people worldwide were ...

At the Bedretto Underground Laboratory deep in the Swiss Alps, scientists are inducing tiny earthquakes along a natural fault zone in the hopes of understanding what can trigger—and prevent—a deadly ...