Environmental Matters

Eunice Foote and Guy Callendar showed the warming effects of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Our current exhibition explores more than 200 years of water analysis and protection in the United States.

There are plenty of these essential elements, but getting them out of the ground leaves behind massive environmental damage.

Our new outdoor exhibition explores the intersections of environmentalism, education, and fun through board games from the 1970s.

The groundbreaking ecologist showed that the biological diversity within a stream can be used to diagnose its health.

In 1986 the atmospheric chemist provided the most conclusive evidence that CFCs were destroying the Earth’s ozone layer.

How ancient (and not so ancient) cultures thought about water purity and contamination.

An environmental success story.

Take a trip down Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal with cartographer and citizen scientist Eymund Diegel.

Interview with the Nobel Prize-winning chemist who first discovered the dangers of CFCs to the Earth’s ozone layer.

Educational board games focused on water, pollution, and climate.

To fight air pollution, officials first had to convince Californians that carmakers were the enemy, not cars.

The marine biologist’s book Silent Spring marked a turning point in society’s understanding of the environment.

Hear how Philly became an unexpected water pollution pioneer.

In the mid-20th century, tensions between humans and mosquitoes reached fever pitch.