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NRDC’s chief program officer, Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, knows that resistance takes persistence—and a lot of collaboration.

A Berkeley scientist is studying how climate change is affecting California’s giant sequoias, long considered dependable forest stalwarts.

When social inequity is the issue, NRDC campaigner Rob Friedman falls back on the basics: people skills.

One woman’s mission to save songbirds from their greatest man-made threat: windows.

Jeff Schacher knew that restaurants waste food. And that people are hungry. So he invented a tech-savvy way to rescue millions of meals.

NRDC’s Bobby McEnaney wrangles ranchers, energy experts, and environmentalists to protect public lands while expanding clean energy.

For activist Bryan Parras, a native of Houston’s refinery-filled east side, the personal is very much the political.

How a disgusting sight spurred John Adams to form the nation’s first litigation-focused environmental advocacy group.

Noah Horowitz obsesses over the imperceptible ways your television, computer, light bulbs, and dryer are wasting electricity—so you don’t have to.

By following hundreds of children from the womb through adolescence, Dr. Frederica Perera has become a public-health superhero.