Four local professionals in environmental science spoke at a panel discussion at the Bunker Interpretive Center on Monday evening.
Andy McIntyre, Jen Howell, Jackie Landon and Wes Landon shared their...
A recent study out of Cornell University focused on seagrass meadows in the Indo-Pacific has given rise to a new environmental battle cry: “Save the seagrass!”
Marine biologist Dr. C. Drew Harvell...
Modern engineering techniques and physics equations unveiled the deadly phenomenon of the Great Molasses Flood, a molasses wave that smothered part of Boston nearly a century ago.
On January 15, 1919,...
President Barack Obama’s recent conservation efforts and his pledges to slow global climate change could leave behind a commitment to sustainability and environmental efficiency, but President-elect...
Leonardo DiCaprio delivers a relevant and emotional message in his recent documentary “Before the Flood,” which leaves no stones unturned about the environmental state of our planet.
On October...
Colonization of Mars is projected to occur within our lifetime, according to National Geographic and Mars One.
Not only has National Geographic made a visit to the Red Planet possible through a virtual...
“How small can you make machinery?” physicist Richard Feynman challenged the scientific community in 1984, according to “Wall Street Daily.”
Feynman had conceived the concept of nanotechnology...
Plaster Creek Stewards and over one hundred volunteers completed eight curb-cut rain gardens last weekend.
Volunteers from local high schools and churches joined Calvin College students and Plaster...
A battle over sacred ground that began nearly 7 years ago, according to the New York Times, will come to a close within the next few months.
This month, both proponents and opponents of building another...
Recent medical research has discovered another promising use for stem cells: neural tissue regeneration.
Previously, most scientists believed that neural damage was permanent, because neural cells do...
They might not be the flying cars we expected from “Back to the Future II,” but autonomous vehicles are the cars of our future after U.S. regulators and the Obama administration granted permission...
