From Roman drains to ancient filters, these artefacts show how solutions to water contamination have evolved

Having to protect and conserve drinking water and its sources is as relevant today as it always has been.

Rosa Busquets, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry, Kingston University • conversation
July 1, 2025 ~7 min

What Trump’s budget proposal says about his environmental values

The White House proposal represents a dramatic retreat from the national goals of clean air and clean water enacted in federal laws over the past 55 years.

Janet McCabe, Visiting Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Law, Visiting Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University • conversation
June 27, 2025 ~12 min


How Trump’s ‘gold standard’ politicizes federal science

The first Trump administration also used words like ‘transparency,’ ‘reproducibility’ and ‘uncertainty’ − to try to block regulators from using important health studies when writing pollution rules.

H. Christopher Frey, Glenn E. Futrell Distinguished University Professor of Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University • conversation
June 5, 2025 ~10 min

Humans are killing helpful insects in hundreds of ways − simple steps can reduce the harm

Insects are often under pressure from several threats at once, from pesticides to habitat loss to pollution.

Eliza Grames, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, State University of New York • conversation
May 8, 2025 ~8 min

Why the energy transition won’t be green until mine waste disasters are prevented

Reclaiming and regenerating environments affected by mining tailings requires greater financing and innovation.

Karen Hudson-Edwards, Professor in Sustainable Mining, University of Exeter • conversation
April 25, 2025 ~6 min

Stripping federal protection for clean water harms just about everyone, especially already vulnerable communities

These aren’t abstract problems. They’re happening right now, in real communities, to real people.

Jeremy Orr, Adjunct Professor of Law, Michigan State University • conversation
April 22, 2025 ~9 min

As federal environmental priorities shift, sovereign Native American nations have their own plans

Tribal governance takes a long view based in Native peoples’ deep history with these lands.

Alyssa Kreikemeier, Assistant Professor of History, University of Idaho • conversation
March 28, 2025 ~11 min

Revoking EPA’s endangerment finding – the keystone of US climate policies – won’t be simple and could have unintended consequences

The Trump administration’s goal is to roll back rules limiting planet-warming greenhouse gases emissions from power plants, vehicles and oil and gas production, but it could backfire for industry.

Patrick Parenteau, Professor of Law Emeritus, Vermont Law & Graduate School • conversation
March 19, 2025 ~9 min


Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem

The reality is that chewing gum is just another form of plastic pollution, but it is not treated as such.

David Jones, Sessional Teaching Fellow, School of the Environment and Life Sciences, University of Portsmouth • conversation
March 17, 2025 ~7 min

America’s clean air rules boost health and the economy − here’s what EPA’s new deregulation plans ignore

Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.

Richard E. Peltier, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, UMass Amherst • conversation
March 12, 2025 ~9 min

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