'Water bankruptcy' — U.N. scientists say much of the world is irreversibly depleting water

With many rivers and aquifers tapped beyond their limits, UN scientists say the world is entering an era of 'water bankruptcy ...

How India seeks to deal with persisting problem of marine pollution

Marine pollution has emerged as one of the most pressing environmental challenges. For a country like India, with a coastline ...
Wired

Creating a Global Package to Solve the Problem of Plastics

A UN treaty could be the beginning of the end for single-use plastic production—but victory over this pollutant isn’t yet in the bag. According to the United Nations, plastic production skyrocketed ...
The Hill

A planet in crisis: How can we solve our plastics problem?

It boggles the mind to know we humans are literally made of stardust. Nearly all the elements in our bodies come from the stuff produced as stars exploded over the last 13 billion years. It boggles ...
Forbes

Are You Stuck? Your Creative Environment Might Be The Problem

Stuck. Stuckness. While working on the opening of this article about the creative environment, my mind became fixated on those two words: stuck and stuckness. What do they actually mean? Being the ...
The Hill

Problem Solvers Caucus proposes bipartisan energy deal

The Problem Solvers Caucus, a group of moderate Republicans and Democrats, is taking a swing at an energy deal that has eluded Congress in recent years. The caucus on Thursday morning released a ...
Drexel University

The Environment's People Problem (and how to solve it)

The Environment's People Problem (and how to solve it) is a showcase of environmental research in the social sciences, humanities and arts underway at Drexel, featuring opportunities for student ...

Researchers find Antarctic penguin breeding is heating up sooner, and that’s a problem

“Chinstraps are declining globally,” Martinez said. “Models show that they might get extinct before the end of the century at ...