earth commons

In a year-long project, students and faculty members are wading into rivers and measuring just how much microplastic is there — and where it’s coming from — in DC. …

Georgetown’s Earth Commons Institute received its largest gift to date that will fund a new endowed chair for innovative education, groundbreaking research and transformative action on the environment and sustainability.

Undergraduates traveled to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as part of a new immersive summer course and found the experience shifted how they interact with the environment — and with their own…

Around 450 CE, an infectious disease, most likely malaria, swept through central Italy. The impact of this public health crisis is marked by the infant cemetery at Poggio Gramignano (Lugnano…