This year, Earth Day falls on a Saturday, April 22, providing a perfect opportunity to turn the day into an “environmental Shabbat.” Shabbat is a reminder of creation, as the Bible writes after six ...

All the religions of the world have traditionally expressed some ethical concern for the environment and its creatures. They have accorded some moral significance to other creatures, and proposed some ...

Dad and I pored over the map, scanning state by state as we tallied our visits to America’s National Parks. “I’ve still got you beat by two,” Dad said at last. “So don’t go taking any more road trips.

Linda Ryan, a Northampton Elementary fifth-grade science and social studies teacher, spent a week this summer finding ways to motivate children and teachers in her community. Ryan was one of 45 ...

In 1970, Americans could see, feel, and smell the effects of pollution in their daily lives. Rivers were catching on fire. Smog hung over cities like a thick fog. That year, Senator Gaylord Nelson ...

When two teenage boys were caught on video dumping two garbage cans of trash into the Atlantic Ocean after the Boca Bash boating party a couple of weeks ago, Rodney Barreto, chairman of the Florida ...

From tide pools at Abalone Cove to the Bering Straits in Alaska, Fountain Valley High teach Lisa Battig has an abiding interest in environmental science. (Photo courtesy Lisa Battig) Students in Lisa ...

Rachel Carson is credited with launching the modern environmental movement with her landmark book, "Silent Spring" (Carson, 1962). She documented and decried the widespread harm caused by pesticides ( ...

Thank you for publishing Devra Lee Davis’s essay (“The Heavy Air of Donora, Pa.,” The Review, October 25). As I read the piece, parts of my own family history came back to me with a new reality, and I ...