A handful of environmentalists and community activists argued that a decades-long emphasis on heavy industry has placed a ...

I write about economic development in Indiana. Others write about environmental delights, limitations and desecration by humanity. Both the environment and the economy are too often conceived as big ...

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling on countries to place the environment at the centre of global development talks. GLAND, Switzerland (4 December) -- United Nations ...

William Nordhaus can recall the precise moment when he became interested in what is now known as “green accounting,” a type of accounting that factors environmental costs and benefits into measures of ...

New research published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment reveals that human infrastructure, such as roads and ...

Experts estimate that genetic mutations account for about 10% of diseases, like Parkinson's, for example. The remaining 90% ...