http://www.vision.orgFeatured Articles on Science and the Environment from VisionCopyright ©2012 Vision.org.  All rights reservedIn The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, journalist Charles Fishman reintroduces the reader to life’s most precious resource—water.http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/environmental.issues.water.issues/46096.aspxWed, 06 Jul 2011 11:35:11 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/environmental.issues.water.issues/46096.aspxApril 26 marks the 25th anniversary of the worst nuclear disaster in history. It’s a good time to revisit our individual and collective responsibilities regarding the energy sources we all depend on.http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/anniversary-chernobyl-disaster/41270.aspxFri, 25 Feb 2011 11:12:07 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/anniversary-chernobyl-disaster/41270.aspxThe United Nations has declared 2011 the International Year of Chemistry. While the world celebrates a century of scientific progress, we have to ask how our dreams of a synthetic utopia might end.  http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/current-science-articles/year-of-chemistry/44628.aspxMon, 23 May 2011 10:45:13 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/current-science-articles/year-of-chemistry/44628.aspx Ever since Edwin Hubble’s discovery of the expansion of the universe in 1929, astronomers have sought an answer to a most basic question: How long ago did the universe begin expanding? To determine an answer, one must know the rate of expansion, a value called the Hubble constant (H0). http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/wendy-freedman-interview/science/50064.aspxMon, 14 Nov 2011 13:25:09 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/wendy-freedman-interview/science/50064.aspxAs the United Nations pegs October 31, 2011, as the date when human population passes 7 billion, we can expect increasingly strident calls for a deep evaluation of our planetary role.http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/current-events/world-population/49644.aspxMon, 31 Oct 2011 10:48:08 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/current-events/world-population/49644.aspxScientists are turning the cosmos upside down in their search for a unifying Theory of Everything. But there’s one place most of them won’t look.  http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/science-and-religion/theory-of-everything/47489.aspxTue, 16 Aug 2011 12:10:32 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/science-and-religion/theory-of-everything/47489.aspx