Development in Northern New Hanover County, including the Sledge Forest project, raises concerns about wetland loss and increased flooding. Wetlands play a crucial role in flood control, water quality ...

Environmental engineering combines scientific and engineering principles to improve and maintain the environment in order to protect human health, natural resources, and natural environments.

EDISTO ISLAND — Across 11 generations and more than three centuries, Tom Austin's family has called the area in and around this sea island home. As Austin drove his car down tree-shaded lanes, he ...

Ninety percent of the world lives with either degraded land, unhealthy air or water stress. In low-income countries, 80 percent live without all three. • The degradation of natural wealth is not just ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers scaled back a law that was vilified for its role in California’s housing shortage and homelessness crisis. By Laurel Rosenhall Soumya Karlamangla and Adam ...

Degraded natural wealth is not just an environmental problem, it is also an economic liability. But achieving economic growth without harming the environment is not only possible but has already been ...

The Norwegian Forum for Development and Environment (ForUM) was established in 1992 as the direct result of the Rio Conference. ForUM is a network for NGOs in Norway which are either partially or ...

What’s the point of building thousands of new homes if everyone living in them is miserable because our quality of life is destroyed?