Alaska’s Whale Mystery: Where ...
As the Arctic struggles with climate extremes, the bowhead migration is two months late. If whales don’t arrive soon, “we’re going to go hungry,” one hunter said.
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The Trump administration is expected to roll back an Obama-era regulation to limit dangerous heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury from coal-fired power plants, according to two people familiar with the plans.
read moreWildfires Are Making Californi...
A new study examines the human health costs of the fires.
read more‘Someone Cancel the Clim...
“The climate talks in Chile were canceled because of the very issues that are at the heart of the climate emergency: social inequality, disrespect for human rights, and an economy that prioritizes big business and polluters over the needs of everyday people.”
read moreGreta Thunberg rejects major c...
The teenage climate activist said the planet “doesn’t need any more awards.”
read moreWhat western states can learn ...
For several months in 2019, it seemed wildfires wouldn’t rage across the West as they had in recent years. But then came the dry autumn and California’s Santa Ana and Diablo winds, which can drive the spread of wildfires
read moreIn Vermont, a Zero-Energy Mode...
Local agriarian buildings inspire a mix of styles in a home that produces as much energy as it uses
read more‘Like a Death in the Family’...
Texas coal companies are leaving behind contaminated land. The state is letting them.
read moreFour States, Led by New York, ...
On October 23, New York Attorney General Letitia James, joined by attorneys general from Maryland, New Jersey, and California, sent a letter of support to the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) over a Washington state law that would limit the volatility of oil transported by train through the state.
read moreThink rural America doesn’t ca...
Anna Claussen grew up on a family farm 20 miles outside of Benson, Minnesota, a town of just over 3,000 souls. She left the farm when she was 18 to pursue her undergraduate degree on the outskirts of Minneapolis, and has lived in the city since.
read moreThe Answer to Climate-Killing ...
Methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas. A modest feed additive could provide a big leverage effect.
read more‘Forces We’ve Unle...
“Our rage as a nation has to burn as fiercely as every fire we witness — for the retiree who’s lost their entire life savings, for the family forced to evacuate from a home they may never come back to, for the child suffocating in smoke miles away.”
read moreWhy ‘acting locally’ is imposs...
Like many Americans, I worry about the state of the planet and try to make a positive impact through decisions in my day-to-day life.
read moreThat 1970s scourge acid rain i...
Starting in the 1970s acid rain turned hundreds of lakes and streams in Adirondack Park in upstate New York so acidic that fish could not survive.
read moreSecret Deal Helped Housing Ind...
A secret agreement has allowed the nation’s homebuilders to make it much easier to block changes to building codes that would require new houses to better address climate change, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
read moreRalph Nader: How corporate pow...
The lawmakers are doing it. The candidates are doing it. The mass media are doing it. All are excluding from their arenas the leading citizen groups as never before, since the early nineteen sixties. The nonprofit national advocacy/research organizations that led the way for social reforms are being shut out of the political process.
read more3 global conditions – and a ma...
Nature urgently needs our help. Wild creatures, from songbirds to butterflies and from primates to tortoises, are disappearing so rapidly that they could be lost forever together with the wild forests, grasslands and other habitats that long sustained them.
read moreHold the Guacamole: Florida Ma...
The Blue-Green Algae Task Force recommends strategies for reducing nutrient flow into Florida waters
read moreFind Your Ideal Job in Sphere ...
Climate change is a topic that concerns everyone, and for us to combat it and save our beloved planet, more people have to embrace a career in climate science education.
read moreSouth Dakota Backs Off Harsh N...
At least seven other states have added stiff new penalties in the last few years for protesting near oil and gas pipelines and other ‘critical infrastructure.’
read moreRace to Save the World: Expert...
Climate-crisis experts discussed solutions for the warming world, epidemics, and food scarcity at a D.C. event hosted by The Daily Beast and Pfizer.
read moreA Forecast for a Warming World...
SAN FRANCISCO — Facing down 600 wildfires in the past three days alone, emergency workers rushed to evacuate tens of thousands of people in Southern California on Thursday as a state utility said one of its major transmission lines broke near the source of the out-of-control Kincade blaze in Northern California.
read moreThese U.N. Climate Scientists ...
$300 billion. That’s the money needed to stop the rise in greenhouse gases and buy up to 20 years of time to fix global warming, according to United Nations climate scientists.
read moreHere’s What Baltimore’s Lawsui...
The Supreme Court this week blocked an effort to halt the case.
read moreTOP U.S. TOXICOLOGIST WAS BARR...
THE WIDESPREAD ENVIRONMENTAL contaminants known as PFAS cause multiple health problems in people, according to Linda Birnbaum, who retired as director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program earlier this month.
read moreAs the climate changes, archit...
In the past seven years, four major disasters have caused serious disruptions in the Northeast and Midwest United States. Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City in 2012, inflicting nearly US$11 billion in damage to buildings.
read moreCleaning Up Our Hidden Shoreli...
We hosted our first-ever “Urban Litter Challenge” and here’s how the day went
read moreFailing nuclear industry pushi...
A bailout proposed by the nuclear industry would cost tax and ratepayers billions, while starving demand for wind and solar
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