Women entrepreneurs are increasingly recognized for the success of their businesses and for the important contributions to their countries’ economic well-being.  A growing body of research indicate...

Antarctica is both a place where Nature has conquered Man and a journey experienced by only .03 percent of the world’s population.  The continent’s pristine beauty is a testament to why the world...

It is no secret that oceans are ailing. Statistics abound to remind people of their precarious state: Catch is declining even as fishing efforts increase; once iconic stocks now face collapse, and gov...

Humanity stands at the edge of a new frontier. Earth is at a critical threshold and global society’s ability to master the sustainability challenge within the next decade will determine whether the ...

Nine years ago on what was otherwise a regular summer day in Northern Ohio, a high-voltage transmission line sagged because of the high current passing through it and clipped an untrimmed tree branch ...

In 1787 the Founding Fathers knew they were forging a charter of freedom to create a new nation by the voice of the people. What they did not realize is that 225 years later the United States would co...

Years ago, leading geologists ridiculed naturalist John Muir’s observations that persistent forces of water were responsible for carving Yosemite Valley. Just as the presence of glaciers one million...

Several decades ago, environmental scholar and author Barry Commoner remarked on the “interconnectedness of everything.” Yet governing institutions and resource managers, decades after Commoner’...

Perusing headlines across the United States, the poetic refrain of Samuel Coleridge comes to mind: “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” The refrain referenced oceans, but it seems inc...

Religion is a powerful resource that has the ability to control massive numbers of people instantaneously. It can make believers strive to be the best possible person, or it can make humans do terribl...

Chemicals are essential components in Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems, but DoD faces long-term risk from its use of hazardous and toxic chemicals and materials. Employment of these chemical...

Late 2008, the Office of the Secretary of Defense Power Surety Task Force (PSTF) made an unexpected discovery during a routine housing construction project at Fort Belvoir in Virginia.ⁱ In ...

We could barely see the grass – a small island of green amid a sea of concrete rooftop at the Interior Department’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. But, for the Nation’s premier ...