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If you have gone to Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s internet home page since mid-December, it would be reasonable to wonder if you had stumbled into some kind of parallel universe.
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Here are some easy ways to live more gently on the earth. The key word here is “easy.”
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It is nearly impossible to live in today’s world without having come across mention of the legendary Noam Chomsky.
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On the evening of January 6, Louisiana state regulators issued 15 key permits to the Taiwanese petrochemical corporation Formosa for its $9.4 billion plastics manufacturing complex proposed for the historically black area of St. James Parish.
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The White House on Thursday introduced major changes to the nation’s benchmark environmental protection law, moving to ease approval of major energy and infrastructure projects without detailed environmental assessment or consideration of climate change.
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The Trump administration has pursued many controversial goals in managing U.S. public lands, including shrinking national monuments and cutting back protection for threatened species. Its latest disruptive move targets the government employees who oversee these resources.
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The dizzying loss of forest land in the Amazon is the Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Decade.
read moreIn India, Indigenous Tribes Cl...
A government campaign to plant more trees has sparked a negative response from the indigenous communities of India.
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Five Gen-Zers crouched around a small pile of trash in the center of Martyr’s Square in downtown Beirut in the early November sun.
read moreTo Fight Climate Change, One C...
Seeking to do their part to avert climate change, dozens of cities are exploring ways to limit natural gas heating in new homes. One city may also require existing homeowners to make a switch.
read moreEPA Science Advisors Tear Into...
The EPA’s own Science Advisory Board (SAB)—two-thirds of which was appointed by the Trump administration—is the latest group of scientists to come out swinging against a proposal to restrict the use of science in agency decisions.
read moreA New Idea in Architecture? No...
The energy already embodied in the built environment is a precious unnatural resource. It’s time to start treating it like one.
read moreA Call to Action as PlanetR...
Nearly 1,100 scientists, practitioners and experts in groundwater and related fields from 92 countries have called on the governments and non-governmental organizations to “act now” to ensure global groundwater sustainability.
read moreWhat’s Behind Big Oil’s Promis...
Here’s what the major fossil fuel companies are committing to do on climate change, and how that falls far short of what’s needed.
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It was another year in which natural disasters occurred with unnatural force and frequency: Mozambique was submerged by two deadly cyclones, some of its worst storms of record; Japan, Australia, and the southern U.S. sizzled in heat waves; and even the Arctic was on fire.
read moreOur Cherished Rivers Are Under...
Permanent protections for free-flowing rivers need to be a centerpiece of every country’s national climate action plan. Chile can lead the way.
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The galvanizing force of garbage piling up in the streets.
read moreHow Oil Companies Avoided Envi...
Louisiana still hasn’t finished investigating 540 oil spills after Hurricane Katrina. The state is likely leaving millions of dollars in remediation fines on the table — money that environmental groups say they need as storms get stronger.
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The Garbage Café in India is tackling the country’s plastic crisis while also giving a hearty meal to the poor and the homeless.
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GERM OF AN IDEA
Collecting bacteria from whales is about as complicated as you would think.
Federal Toxmap Shutters, Raisi...
The loss of the federal pollution tracker, supporters say, will inhibit public access to data on environmental hazards.
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Even as international climate negotiators tried to make progress at the UN climate summit in Madrid in early December, fossil fuel production and consumption has continued to rise, and major oil companies have been seeking new horizons to exploit.
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The first satellite designed to continuously monitor the planet for methane leaks made a startling discovery last year: A little known gas-well accident at an Ohio fracking site was in fact one of the largest methane leaks ever recorded in the United States.
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Government scientists say chlorpyrifos is unsafe. And yet it’s still in use.
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This holiday season, Americans will buy some 20 million turkeys and 300 million pounds of ham.
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