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International concern is growing over the rapidly spreading fires that are destroying large swaths of the Amazon rainforest
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Residents in South Portland, Maine, packed a meeting to find out about the noxious fumes fouling the air they breathe. The news, one official said, was bad.
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From skyrocketing property values to the much-beleaguered Venice Boulevard road diet, Mar Vista has seen its ups and downs. Sadly, the neighborhood’s latest hot-potato issue is the homeless encampment that occupies the two blocks dedicated to Sunday’s popular Mar Vista Farmers Market.
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Western coal states want an export terminal on the Columbia River. Washington state has concerns about the company and its environmental and climate impact.
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Environmental and animal protection groups have sued the administration over the Trump-Bernhardt ‘extinction plan.’
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In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remains officially listed as 10 gallons, the size of two bottled water delivery jugs.
read moreHere’s how we solve the planet...
Earlier this month, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a dire report highlighting the enormous environmental impact of agriculture. But the report also pointed to a clear way for us to feed more mouths without causing more planetary destruction: We can stop wasting food.
read moreClimate strike organizers pled...
One year after Greta Thunberg began her protest in Sweden, millions of climate strikers will join her on Sept. 20
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Can an alliance of Germany’s political parties save them?
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America Rising has been filing records requests for the emails of agency officials who have supported Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and others.
read more“Humanitarian Aid Is Never a C...
Volunteers with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths have been venturing into the harsh Sonoran Desert for years to leave life-saving supplies for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
read moreMedications Can Raise Heat Str...
As climate change brings dangerous heat waves, too little is being done to better warn patients or physicians of the growing risk, medical experts say.
read moreThe Thick Gray Line: Forest El...
If the species is wiped out by poachers, Africa’s vast rain forest will lose 7 percent of its carbon storage ability, scientists estimate.
read moreIceland marks lost glacier wit...
Mourners gathered in Iceland yesterday to commemorate the loss of Ok, a glacier that is not longer a glacier because most of its ice has melted away due to climate change.
read moreGovernment Delays First Big U....
It ordered an expanded review for Vineyard Wind at the same time Trump is weakening environmental rules for fossil fuel projects that contribute to climate change.
read more‘The next Flint,’ and America’...
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A U.S. city is facing a public health crisis, after years of denying that it had a problem with lead in its drinking water supply.
read moreLoving a vanishing world
I want to talk about power — how much we have, and how we can use it meaningfully.
read morePlastics In Rainwater, Plastic...
Congratulations, humans. We have filled the environment with so much plastic, its residue is found in rainwater and snow falling on the tallest mountains and contained in much of the food we eat.
read moreFracking and Shale Drilling Ca...
Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That’s both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government’s State of the Climate report, which was published this week with the American Meteorological Society.
read moreTop CDC Health and Climate Sci...
He’s one of several federal scientists working on climate change who say they have been silenced, sidelined or demoted under the Trump administration.
read moreThe Trump administration tried...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is supposed to use the “latest available science” to help the nation’s farmers avoid risk, according to its own mission.
read moreWe’ve got another ozone proble...
Most of us know ozone as that benevolent stratospheric layer that absorbs the sun’s harmful UV light and keeps us safe.
read moreCould Restoring Soil Help Halt...
Land degradation represents “one of the biggest and most urgent challenges” that humanity faces.
read moreHow One Billionaire Could Keep...
Australia — The vast, untapped coal reserve in northeastern Australia had for years been the object of desire for the Indian industrial giant Adani.
read moreFarmers hit back after Departm...
Farmers facing record bankruptcies and collapsing incomes due to President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with China were not amused by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s joke about their economic pain during an event in Minnesota last week.
read moreNewark hands out bottled water...
Water issues are becoming more prevalent around the country even as the EPA says it is prioritizing the issue.
read moreTainted Pork, Ill Consumers an...
Drug-resistant infections from food are growing. But powerful industry interests are blocking scientists and investigators from getting information they need to combat the problem.
read moreWHAT REALLY GOES INTO YOUR MOR...
In the 15th century, Sufi mystics in Yemen brewed a hot, bitter drink to stay focused during late-night rituals.
read moreAs Global Warming Increases, I...
I’m sure you’ve heard that old adage, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.”
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