It seems that the most effective thing sustainability executives in large companies can do is to stop talking about sustainability.

An analysis of newly sequenced polar bear genomes is providing important clues about the species' evolution, suggesting that climate change and genetic exchange with brown bears helped create the polar bear as we know it today.

Once leaders in sustainable investment and shareowner advocacy, college and university endowments now lag behind many mainstream institutions in the uptake of environmental, social and corporate governance investment criteria.

The oldest winery in the US was transformed over the course of eight years by rethinking its relationship with water, aerating its wastewater and using renewables.

In fish-crazed Japan, where eating seafood is a vital part of the nation's culture, conservation groups are working with companies to persuade more Japanese to eat certified, sustainably caught seafood.

Farms have sprouted in cities across the country over the past several years as activists and idealists pour their sweat into gritty soil.

As the world’s population becomes more urbanized, city governments are looking to businesses and hackers to help them harness data and technology to fix social and environmental problems.

Can a veteran of sustainable business coalitions help rethink our economic system?

Even if Mitsubishi's reported plan to hybridize or electrify its fleet materializes over the next four years, experts are mixed on the overall impact on the industry.

A recent study noted that most of the 6,900 languages spoken on Earth occur in regions of high biodiversity. These findings point to a strong correlation between biological and linguistic diversity, with languages closely connected to the habitats where they are found.