Environment Science

For Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research Roberto Zoncu, science has always been an adventure. Read More

ABOARD THE RESEARCH VESSEL BRAVEHEART— Being surrounded by this vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean with no land in sight for days is a humbling experience. It drives home just how much of our planet is covered in ocean: 71 percent. Read More

The National Institutes of Health announced the recipients of awards Oct. 6 for researchers demonstrating exceptional creativity. The additional funding will help the scientists conduct investigations in cancer, neuroscience, structural biology, immunology, and bioengineering. Read More

For the past decade, researchers at New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research and the Department of Conservation have studied the habits of the great white sharks that live in New Zealand’s waters. Read More

Come along on a virtual expedition to French Polynesia’s Austral and Gambier islands. Read More

Come along on a virtual expedition to French Polynesia’s Austral and Gambier islands. Read More

Global Ocean Legacy, a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners, is seeking to establish a new benchmark for the protection of ocean ecosystems: creation of the first generation of great marine parks around the globe by 2022. Read More

Over the period from 2005 through 2009, the U.S. government spent $96.3 billion on about 60 different subsidies that were directed at increasing energy production, subsidizing energy consumption, or increasing energy efficiency. Read More

The Clean Water Act is the principal law for controlling pollution of rivers, lakes and wetlands in the United States. With its ambitious goal to restore and maintain “the chemical, physical and biological integrity” of the nation's waterways, the law has a mixed record overall but a poor record when it comes to regulating pollution from animal agriculture, particularly concentrated animal... Read More

For Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research Roberto Zoncu, science has always been an adventure. Read More

ABOARD THE RESEARCH VESSEL BRAVEHEART— Being surrounded by this vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean with no land in sight for days is a humbling experience. It drives home just how much of our planet is covered in ocean: 71 percent. Read More

The National Institutes of Health announced the recipients of awards Oct. 6 for researchers demonstrating exceptional creativity. The additional funding will help the scientists conduct investigations in cancer, neuroscience, structural biology, immunology, and bioengineering. Read More

For the past decade, researchers at New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research and the Department of Conservation have studied the habits of the great white sharks that live in New Zealand’s waters. Read More

A new study in Nature Communications provides the first global analysis of how coral reefs reduce risk from storms, flooding and sea level rise. Read More

For the world's 197 million coastal dwellers, Pew marine fellows reveal how coral reduces the risks of storms and floods by 97 percent. Read More

Predators are an important factor that is often not considered explicitly in fisheries management. But several methods are available today to incorporate predators, a practical step toward ecosystem-based management.  Read More

Spanning 1.2 billion acres, Canada's boreal forest is the largest intact forest ecosystem on the planet. This unique environment is home to hundreds of species of migratory fish and birds, and contains carbon-rich soil and permafrost critical to the fight against global warming. Read More

The deep sea is home to an estimated 10 million species, most of which have yet to be scientifically-documented. These fragile deep-sea habitats, which have taken centuries to grow, are being destroyed by trawlers dragging enormous weighted nets that, in a single pass, scrape the ocean floor habitat clean. Read More

By banning the sale, possession and distribution of shark fins (spring of 2011), Guam has joined other Pacific islands in leading the charge for shark conservation. Read More