Climate change, pollution, environmental degradation and resource depletion are just a few of the greatest challenges facing the world in the 21st century. Tackling these challenges means carrying out ...

Many environmental stressors have well-established links with adverse health outcomes, which calls for research that moves beyond documenting harm toward ...

The University of California, Davis, Office of Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephanie Hampton as the director of the Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) and professor in ...

Basic science research deals with molecules, clinical research works with individuals, population-based research is done on groups of people, and translational research applies the findings of the ...

This post was updated Oct. 16 at 11:05 p.m. Amphibian conservation in Australia, sustainable fashion in Indonesia and human-elephant coexistence in India were among the projects nominated for a UCLA ...

A report from UC Davis' Tahoe Environmental Research Center describes deteriorating water conditions at Clear Lake, pictured, California's largest natural freshwater lake. (Getty) The water quality of ...

"Baltimore is sinking, and the sea is rising," Benjamin Zaitchik pronounced on a drizzly, late-summer day in his office at Johns Hopkins University. A professor of Earth and planetary sciences, ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency on May 2 announced its anticipated reorganization plan, which includes a new Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions (OASES). The agency did not ...

Research on the human dimensions of global change concerns human activities that alter the Earth's environment, the driving forces of those activities, the consequences of environmental change for ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

California has a robust if little-known agency that conducts research to protect people from harmful exposures It could take on a bigger role now that the federal government is eliminating its own ...