Beach Nourishment: Supreme Court To Decide Who Owns the New Sand

June 24, 2009–When governments or communities pay to replenish beaches along privately owned beachfront property — or create new beaches by trucking in sand — what does that mean for the landowners' waterfront rights and property value?

US Vulnerability To Heat Waves Varies Substantially by Location

June 24, 2009–A new analysis of about 40,000 census tracts in the larger US metropolitan areas can help you cover how well your community is preparing for heat-related risk.

Green Social Networks: It's Not Easy Being Green Alone

April 1, 2009–Do green social networks actually increase coherence in the environmentalist community, or are they a distraction? Are they sincere or opportunistic? Can they be used for greenwashing? All of the above?

Report: Hints of Substantial Urban Residential Infill

March 18, 2009–Researchers with EPA's Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation has found that residential development in some metro areas has moved from suburbs and exurbs to infill development within urban areas.

Food Deserts: Where The Food Isn't

February 18, 2009–Areas lacking easy access to affordable staple foods can signal larger long-term problems, including environmental ones. Simple interactive maps can play a key role in engaging your community.

Review: No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations

January 15, 2009–Written by David S. Wilcove; reviewed by Tom Henry.

Reporter's Toolbox: Might the Suburbs in your Area Become the Next Slums?

November 15, 2008–Are Peak Oil, the subprime mortgage mess and generational shifts ending Americans' love affair with the suburbs? That's what some high-profile urban planning types are postulating.

Environmental Refugees May Be Everyone's Problem: Security Issues

December 19, 2007–Displaced people from disasters, climate change pose international social, economic and security threats

Environmental Refugees: Demographic and Other Resources

December 19, 2007–Key resources of studies and statistics for human angles on environmental stories.

Environmental Refugees: U.S. and World Examples

December 19, 2007–Disasters create hundreds of thousands of environmental refugees in U.S and the World.