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Saltwater rushed into St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice last week, submerging marble tombs, intricate mosaics, and centuries-old columns. A man was spotted swimming across St. Mark’s Square, normally bustling with tourists, as the highest tide in 50 years swept through.
read moreGlimpsed from a kayak on West Neck Creek, this swampy piece of land, a pocket of red maple and loblolly pine tucked behind growing subdivisions, doesn’t look like the stuff of existential debate.
read moreAn update to the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria certification, available to property owners of low- and moderate-income housing, integrates key aspects of WELL 2.0.
read moreThey could face fines of $10,000 and up to six years in jail.
read moreMillions of solar panels clustered together to form an island could convert carbon dioxide in seawater into methanol, which can fuel airplanes and trucks, according to new research from Norway and Switzerland and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, PNAS, as NBC News reported.
read moreAn eye-opening report reveals how low-grade plastics are burned as fuel, poisoning the surrounding soil and air.
read moreGrowing up in Tanzania, I knew that fruit trees were useful. Climbing a mango tree to pick a fruit was a common thing to do when I was hungry, even though at times there were unintended consequences.
read moreThis America Recycles Day, take the #BeRecycled pledge and help keep our ocean – and our planet – healthy
read moreCountries have called California’s cap-and-trade program the answer to climate change. But it is just as vulnerable to lobbying as any other legislation. The result: The state’s biggest oil and gas companies have actually polluted more since it started.
read more“Inslee and Brown are doing everything politically feasible.”
read moreIn 2015, United Nations member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, which include an imperative to “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.” Yet, in the last four years, matters have deteriorated significantly.
read moreIn the US, one person dies every 15 minutes because of drug resistance.
read moreAncient Mesopotamia, the fabled land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the command and control center of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
read moreConcrete is an old material—8,000 years old. The Romans built with concrete from 300 BC to 476 AD.
read moreFive luminaries explain the concept of ‘environmental justice’ and reveal why, alongside the climate crisis, it is one of the most pressing issues of our time
read moreA student from England’s University of Sussex has won about $40,000 for the invention of a translucent and biodegradable plastic made entirely from fish leftovers.
read moreAt a time when most of humanity lives in cities, where do cars belong — especially the old, polluting ones that make city air foul for people to breathe?
read moreA baby born today will face higher risks of disease and undernutrition because of climate change, according to a new report in The Lancet.
read moreWhen president Trump announced his plans to withdraw from the Paris Agreement in 2017, businesses spoke out en masse in opposition to this plan — conveying that long-term, global competitiveness demands climate action.
read moreClimate researchers are increasingly exploring risk potentials associated with compound climate change events.
read moreThis past summer, members of Congress and environmental groups began using the hashtag #ChamberofCarbon to call out the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for its anti-climate agenda.
read moreAn oil spill has been contaminating the northeastern shore for weeks.
read moreThe one thing you never want to hear your dentist say is “oops!” It’s also alarming to hear from a former U.S. senator — 25 years after he passed a temporary oil subsidy for Big Oil.
read moreThe Baker administration may be on the verge of leading the Northeast towards a major advance in climate policy.
read moreAntarctica’s ice loss is on the rise. Along with warmer water eating away at ice shelves from below, atmospheric rivers are causing trouble from above.
read moreThe Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations, overriding protests from scientists and physicians who say the new rule would undermine the scientific underpinnings of government policymaking.
read moreSpring floods, hot summers and warmer winters have been wake-up calls as global warming raises the risks for everything from ice fishing to growing seasons.
read moreResidents of the town of Puerto Gaitán say their water sources are being used for the cultivation of oil palm plantations and the extraction of crude
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