The Schmidt Family Foundation has renewed a multi-year grant to continue funding  the Schmidt Environmental Solutions Fellows Program at UC Santa Barbara.

Both environmental science and environmental engineering offer dynamic academic and career opportunities that focus on understanding the natural world and developing sustainable solutions for global ...

The field of environmental studies examines the complex relationships between humans and the natural world. Like environmental science, students of environmental studies learn about ecology, biology, ...

Whether it’s investigating pollution or protecting elephants, Dhruv Rungta is driven to find workable answers Finding answers to this question led Dhruv Rungta to one of the most intense experiences ...

When you hear the word nano, what do you think of? Nanoplastic particles? Graphene? Is the nanoscale revolutionizing technology, or producing pollutants too small to manage? Search engine results are ...

The Schmidt Environmental Solutions program enables students to acquire field work experience, guided by faculty. (Courtesy photo) In its continuing effort to advance solutions to today’s most ...

An edible urban forest and permaculture vegetable garden at Lycee Lyautey in Casablanca, Morocco. Martin Bertrand/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty Images Nature-based solutions use nature to solve environmental ...

Faced with rapid urbanization, fragile waste management systems, youth unemployment and growing climate vulnerability, ...

In a new series of six slim books for kids, Clark County author Stephanie Feldstein explores the industrial-scale, systemic sources of our personal, daily environmental impacts. “As individuals we ...