WASHINGTON – Over the next several decades as the global population grows, society will be faced with pressing challenges such as providing reliable supplies of food and water, diminishing climate ...

In a landmark 2023 study, Northwestern Engineering’s Alessandro Rotta Loria demonstrated for the first time how the ground under cities is warming and deforming due to subsurface urban heat islands ...

When engineers and planners design roads, bridges and dams, they rely on hydrological models intended to protect ...

Stormwater that runs off buildings and paved streets frequently carries high levels of pollutants into rivers and lakes, some of which serve as sources of drinking water. Rain gardens, green ...

DEC grant awards to fund North Country projects for climate action, flood and storm management and infrastructure.

Environmental engineering combines scientific and engineering principles to improve and maintain the environment in order to protect human health, natural resources, and natural environments.

Financial, legal and political bumps did not dent the global environmental services market for ENR’s Top 200 Environmental Firms, based on results reported in this year’s ranking. Ramped-up project ...

Altering the DNA of living organisms could be an early step in re-engineering the natural world to help curb climate change. By Eric Lipton Science is always focused on breakthroughs and the next big ...

The history of geoengineering policymaking has been piecemeal over past decades, with U.N. bodies failing to create or implement rigorous binding international regulatory frameworks for geoengineering ...

Plans to fight climate change by manipulating the Arctic and Antarctic environment are dangerous, unlikely to work and could distract from the need to ditch fossil fuels, dozens of polar scientists ...

The ongoing string of executive orders, federal agency actions, Congressional lawmaking and court cases relating to climate change and the clean energy transition has become one of the hard swerves in ...