Environmental Solutions

In Rebuilding the American Town, the Sam Fox School’s Patty Heyda helps redefine our understanding of the smaller cities that make up the urban landscape.

WashU connections abound at a restorative retreat in Playa El Coco, Nicaragua.

Working in partnership with communities, WashU launches a new initiative to improve nutrition and health locally, nationally and globally.

As the western U.S. faces decreasing water supplies, WashU alumni are helping negotiate how this precious resource will be managed and shared in years to come.

The face masks worn and discarded during the COVID-19 pandemic have an uncertain fate.

Cultivated plants provide people with food, fuel and medicine. But crops also face many types of stresses that threaten their growth and yields.

Society has long struggled with petroleum-derived plastic pollution, and awareness of microplastics’ detrimental effects on food and water supplies adds further pressure.

The downstream consequences of religion, politics and war can have far-reaching effects on the environment and on the evolutionary processes affecting urban organisms, according to a new analysis from Washington University in St. Louis.

SPARK is a free 9-day sustainability leadership training program hosted by the Office of Sustainability.

Before venturing out into the woods, a nearby park or even your backyard, keep an eye out for mosquitoes and ticks, which can be vectors, or carriers, for pathogens that can cause disease.