School districts in Ventura County have long included environmental education in their curriculum. Most of this education tends to focus on hands-on activity. For example, Oak Park Unified School ...

ANSBACH, Germany - Approximately 90 Ansbach elementary school children took a trip to the woods around the Oberdachstetten training range for lessons on being good environmental stewards April 22.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting from Europe, Jeff McMahon covers the environment. It’s clear enough from the discarded masks and gloves polluting ...

From tide pools at Abalone Cove to the Bering Straits in Alaska, Fountain Valley High teach Lisa Battig has an abiding interest in environmental science. (Photo courtesy Lisa Battig) Students in Lisa ...

Rachel Carson is credited with launching the modern environmental movement with her landmark book, "Silent Spring" (Carson, 1962). She documented and decried the widespread harm caused by pesticides ( ...

Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. I know I’m a little late but every day should be Earth Day. Larry Magid (Gary Reyes / Mercury News) I usually commemorate Earth Day by writing about ...

The outdoors meets literature in this children’s book meant to inspire Hoosier children to reconnect to nature and all its beauty. Here to tell us more are Shane Gibson, Author, “Wake Up Woods” and ...

In 1970, Americans could see, feel, and smell the effects of pollution in their daily lives. Rivers were catching on fire. Smog hung over cities like a thick fog. That year, Senator Gaylord Nelson ...

When two teenage boys were caught on video dumping two garbage cans of trash into the Atlantic Ocean during a South Florida boating party a couple of weeks ago, Rodney Barreto, chairman of the Florida ...