Environment Science

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

Five distinguished scientists and conservationists based in Malaysia, Chile, Mexico, and the United States are this year's recipients of the Pew fellowship in marine conservation. The fellowships will support research to improve ocean conservation and management, including a genetic study of the global shark fin trade, a social and economic study of no-take fishing zones combined with territorial... 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

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

Jo Benn | John Briley | Mike Walker 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

Five distinguished scientists and conservationists based in Malaysia, Chile, Mexico, and the United States are this year's recipients of the Pew fellowship in marine conservation. The fellowships will support research to improve ocean conservation and management, including a genetic study of the global shark fin trade, a social and economic study of no-take fishing zones combined with territorial... Read More

Jo Benn | John Briley | Mike Walker Read More

Pete Peterson, a distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and 1994 Pew Marine Fellow, has published a document with co-authors on behalf of the Ocean Conservancy titled “Assessing Natural Resource Damages from the BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Lessons Learned from the Exxon Valdez Experience.” The goal of the document is to guide... Read More

Joshua Reichert, managing director of the Pew Environment Group, issued the following statement today in response to this week's Congressional hearings on the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Read More

This is the breakthrough we have been waiting for. Senators Lieberman and Warner have achieved something I thought impossible one year ago - they have written a climate bill that has a very real chance of passage. They demonstrated a clear commitment for meeting critical objectives of the business and environmental communities while bringing together their colleagues on both sides of the aisle.... 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