Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Published by the Institute on the Environment.

Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Published by the Institute on the Environment.

Germany’s decades-long shift from from coal to renewable energy has brought both challenge and opportunity — and there are lessons for the rest of the world ...

In the forests of New Zealand, indigenous Maori and Western scientists work through past injustices to save a threatened species together ...

Through innovative partnerships and exchanges with neighbors, the Gila River Indian Community is ensuring that its members have long-term access to their own resources while helping solve broader ...

Local food can also be good for the environment, especially if it reduces food waste along the supply chain. Many local farms are organic or well-run conventional farms, which can produce many ...

Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Published by the Institute on the Environment.

Thank you for your informative article called “What to do about the antidepressants, antibiotics and other drugs in our water”. I appreciated the info HOWEVER, YOU OMITTED SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT: ...

We’re pouring millions of tons of salt on roads each winter. Here’s why that’s a problem.

Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Published by the Institute on the Environment.

January 21, 2015 — Conservation biology and restoration ecology have been roiled by a bandwagon termed “novel ecosystems,” heralded as the “new ecological world order” in a manifesto published in 2006 ...

Scandinavian-style sustainability: Wind turbines, bicycling, clean air & water. How do they do that?