Environmental News

The sun had just risen, but its warm rays hadn’t yet crept into the bottom of the canyon. The air was crisp and clean. Birds rustled in the trees and brush around the pond in the canyon’s depths.

At this point, recycling won’t save us. But there are some other scientific innovations that might.

Climate change is one of the biggest controversial debates among experts and politicians these days. The debate has become a hotter topic among college students after experts recently shared concerns, warning that the climate is changing very fast.

Researchers have revealed how the mixture of chemical weapons deployed by plants keeps marauding insects off base better than a one-note defense. This insight goes beyond the ecological convention of studying a single chemical compound a plant is packing and offers new ways to approach agricultural pest management.

We’re proud of all our Pritzker candidates – the work they have done, and will continue to do. Here’s what they’re reading:

The relationship between bees and cannabis is making headlines in both the scientific and entrepreneurial world. And it just may be a match made in heaven.

Researchers have reverse engineered the way a pine tree produces a resin, which could serve as an environmentally friendly alternative to a range of fossil-fuel based products worth billions of dollars.

From the air, the scale of the devastation in and around Paradise, Calif., is, simply put, alarming.

In 1983, California Living Museum opened its doors for the first time. Thirty-five years later, more than 325 animal call CALM home on its 14 acres.  Most of the animals are native to California, others very common to the area.

New research explores the possibilities of a single species’ extinction triggering an “extinction domino effect.”