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 ...

Virtue ethics can be particularly helpful for any kind of leadership because they nurture the formation of character, the lasting habits of the heart and mind necessary to effect positive change in ...

I recently had the opportunity to speak at a State University of New York (SUNY) conference for a group of exceptional primary and high school Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) teachers ...

Two trips within one month recently brought me back to eastern Canada for the first time in 15 or so years. And while Quebec City, Montreal, and Toronto are each very individual, they share traits.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting from Europe, Jeff McMahon covers the environment. It’s clear enough from the discarded masks and gloves polluting ...

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 ( ...

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 ...

Three hundred sixth-graders at Marley Middle School got their hands dirty this past week learning about erosion. Among the lessons they learned: Science class is a lot more fun when chalkboards and ...

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 ...

As United Nations Secretary General António Guterres recently said “We have a choice: Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands.” Amid climate change-driven soaring temperatures in ...