Introducing a new series about UConn environmental research, vice provost John Volin says the political focus on climate change often overshadows important issues of environment and sustainability.

A UConn study shows people form their ideas largely based on marketing messages that tout the health benefits of drinking bottled water over tap water.

'Except for scientists who study them, few people are aware that marine zooplankton are among the most numerous – and important – animals on Earth,' says marine sciences researcher Ann Bucklin.

Plant science professor Yi Li discusses a strategy for editing the DNA of plants that holds promise of countering a devastating citrus disease and creating easy-to-maintain lawns.

Ten years after the Hillside Environmental Education Park was created at the site of a former landfill, the park has been extended with additional land and trails.