If you liked this story, share it with other people. The combined effects of humanity’s actions are making ecosystems less resistant to change, and threatening the vital ecosystem services humanity ...

A United Nations special rapporteur warned Friday that air pollution is contributing to widespread human rights violations worldwide, calling on governments to take urgent action to reduce pollution ...

According to EarthDay.org, two billion metric tons of unsustainable, municipally generated trash are thrown away across the globe every year.

Neurotoxic effects from pesticide exposure are found in humans and wildlife, as documented in a review of toxicological studies.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide information to the Special Rapporteur to inform her upcoming report to the United Nations General Assembly in its eightieth session. This ...

In Nigeria, evidence of global warming and climate change can be attested to by the late onset of rainfall in recent years. In addition, there is reduced precipitation in some parts of the country ...

Pharmaceutical residues increasingly enter ecosystems across the drug life cycle, prompting calls for coordinated global action grounded in One Health principles.

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 ...

GAO was asked to conduct a technology assessment of generative AI effects. In particular, GAO was tasked to assess risk. As a result, it examined: Potential environmental effects of generative AI ...

When, in 1998, Andy Clark and David Chalmers proposed the “extended mind” concept, which posits that cognitive processes and mental states can extend beyond the boundaries of an individual's brain and ...