If you’re in New York City for Earth Day, there are plenty of opportunities to pitch in.

Getting involved on Earth Day is as easy as realizing what you want to do to help.

Toxic substances contain contaminants that can cause sickness or death for living organisms.

Corrosive hazardous waste rusts steel at a higher than normal rate of 6.35 millimeters per year at a test temperature of 55 degrees Celsius.

An abrupt change in the genetic characteristic of an organism.

An independent assessment made by an outside entity or an internal auditor, to ascertain if a particular company or organization is adhering to its own set of environmental compliance policies and practices.

Kraft, like so many companies, is out to paint itself as a green leader in the foodservice industry. Is it another case of green washing, or something real?

The world’s oldest and biggest environmental advocacy network with more than one thousand government and NGO member organizations and almost eleven thousand volunteer scientists from more than 160 countries in its realm.

A cluster of primitive, mainly aquatic plants that have chlorophyll-a as their primary photosynthetic pigment.

The deposition of rock fragments suspended in water on to the floor of an ocean, sea, lake or river flood plain caused by natural processes or exacerbated by human practices.

A study that makes use of a formal framework to determine the effects of a specific human endeavor on natural resources and the environment.