George Washington Carver was an environmental scientist and inventor who revolutionized the ways of farming.

Arbor Day celebrates the planting, nurturing, and preservation of trees around the world.

The issues outlined in this article are specific to the Everglades, but the problems and concerns around aspects of soil subsidence is something impacting soils across the planet.

The article, “Psychological Benefits of Walking through Forest Areas,” published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health in 2018 has found that even a brief walk in natural areas surrounded by trees lowered negative feelings such as “depression-dejection”, “tension-anxiety”, “anger-hostility”, “fatigue”, and “confusion” while increasing “vigor”.

As consumers, we are constantly using and disposing new products and packaging every day. These items and plastics we throw away are referred to as municipal solid waste (MSW) which is put into landfills, recycling centers, composted, or burned for energy recovery.

Water conservation is the practice of using water efficiently and reducing the amount of water used in an unnecessary way.

Hear how We Plant it Forward got started as a small grassroots effort, and Maggie’s vision for the future.

Look past the surface and you’ll find the extensive value of trees. Especially their influence on the mental health of others and air quality.

John Chavis Memorial Park, also known as Chavis Park, is located in Southeast Raleigh, North Carolina.

The major takeaway from Naomi Klein’s latest book, On Fire:  The Burning Case for a Green New Deal is that we must act NOW and at all levels — personal, social, political, economic, international, spiritual — to safeguard, repair, and conserve our natural environment, planet earth, for ourselves, our children and our children’s children on into the future.

Until we all understand that we live under the same roof, we will not be able to join forces to clean our Earth home.

Water is one of the most important resources on Earth that all plants and animals must have to survive. In order to keep a sustainable supply of usable water, we must measure and maintain the water quality of our water sources. To get a measure of the overall water quality of a water system, scientists often examine streams because they are the source of most bodies of water like oceans and lakes.