The North Carolina Senate has approved legislation that would prohibit the state from considering projected sea level increases in its coastal management strategy. But a scientist involved in the debate argues that ignoring these projections will wind up costing North Carolina — and the rest of the U.S. — far more.

The once-magnificent tropical forests of Borneo have been decimated by rampant logging and clearing for oil palm plantations. But in the Malaysian state of Sabah, a top official is fighting to reverse that trend by bringing sustainable forestry to the beleaguered island.

Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and several other Fortune 500 companies are working to address the supply shortages that have stymied the goal of make the 100-percent plant-based plastic bottle ubiquitous.

Certain human behaviors today reflect hardwired traits that helped our ancestors and their kin over time, some of which work against environmental interests. But a little rewiring by marketers can help change that.

Corporate executives lobby Washington every day. Not many come to plead for higher taxes and stronger regulation. This week, that changed. Learn how in our exclusive report from the White House.  

As the globe celebrated World Environment Day this week, the UN released a report finding that just progress has been made on just a handful of important international sustainability goals.

The role of corporate sustainability executives increasingly is about managing risk, plain and simple.

UN's vision for one deal to save the Earth is in peril as countries bicker over phrasing of clauses and key terms in the draft text

The seeds of prosperity for some rural Africans may lie in a crop that has sustained them with calories for centuries but has generated virtually no wealth for their poor countries.Cassava

With great fanfare, the United Nations announced in March that the world had reduced by half the proportion of people drinking unsafe water, meeting a critical development goal five years ahead of schedule. But a closer look reveals that the facts simply do not support this claim.