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This Christmas Day marks 21 years since the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami. As we remember the hundreds of thousands of ...

Discover how common-pool resources, like forests and fisheries, are shared goods prone to overuse. Learn their economic impact and strategies to manage the 'tragedy of the commons.' ...

Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ...

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Synthetic materials are made from natural resources. Synthetic materials are made by chemically changing the starting substances to create a material with different characteristics. Some examples of ...

August 13 - If we want the global economy to stay stable, competitive and sustainable, we need to urgently rethink how we manage the world’s natural resources. In the last decades we have built highly ...

SHADE: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource. By Sam Bloch. Random House. 336 pages. $32. The cities of ancient Mesopotamia were oases for travelers trying to escape the sun’s heat. Urban shade ...

Indigenous peoples in Cambodia have traditionally stewarded — and relied on — millions of hectares of forestland for their sustenance. Now, these communities are concerned about the long-term ...

Federal and state environmental laws impose liability on responsible parties not only for the investigation and remediation of contamination caused by releases of hazardous substances, but also for ...

The House Natural Resources Committee this morning is considering a wide range of legislation that could mandate mining in protected landscapes, require more logging on America’s forests, build more ...