Particulate Matter Air Polluti...

Oct 8, 2019 by

Air pollution is a complicated mixture that includes both invisible gases and solid particles or liquid droplets that float in the air. These pollutants are everywhere—in your home and workplace, in your neighborhood park, near busy (and not-so busy) roadways. And they can make us very sick.

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 In The Mountains, Climate Cha...

Oct 7, 2019 by

The melting of glaciers and loss of snow has a cascading effect for ecosystems, agriculture and billions of people downstream.

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Throwing Away the Future: How ...

Oct 3, 2019 by

We will only see real change when companies like Nestlé, Unilever, Coca-Cola, and PepsiCo, which profit from single-use models, end their expanding plastic use and invest heavily in systems that prioritize reuse.

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A ‘Chilling Message’: Trump Cr...

Oct 3, 2019 by

President Trump’s political feud with California has spread collateral damage across more than a dozen other states, which have seen their regulatory authority curtailed and their autonomy threatened by a Trump administration intent on weakening the environmental statutes of the country’s most populous state.

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Los Angeles, a City Known for ...

Oct 3, 2019 by

The effort starts with its first-ever forest officer.

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The Beam Podcast, Episode 1: P...

Oct 2, 2019 by

The Earth is warming at a faster pace than the world’s scientists thought it would, and the climate crisis has become an emergency. Fossil fuels are the largest contributor to climate change.

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Court: Trump’s EPA Can’t...

Oct 2, 2019 by

A Trump-appointed judge was involved in the ruling. Without a strong plan for cutting coal power plant emissions, meeting ozone requirements gets much harder.

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When the world’s on fire, what...

Sep 27, 2019 by

For millions of people around the globe – especially young people – the pressing issue of our time is this: The world is on fire!

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Melting permafrost in the Arct...

Sep 26, 2019 by

The consequences of climate change can be weird and apocalyptic.

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Before 1965, low CO2 levels we...

Sep 26, 2019 by

Humans have never lived with the high CO2 atmospheric conditions of the last 60 years, according to a new study.

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Indigenous women traveled 3,00...

Sep 24, 2019 by

“If we had dressed in office clothing to meet the standards of D.C.,” says Wanda Culp, who wore vibrant red, blue, and black robes, “we would have just melted into the crowds that were going into those offices every 15 to 30 minutes.”

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Conservation group to buy larg...

Sep 23, 2019 by

The 530-acre forest has hundreds of ancient giant sequoia, including the fifth-largest tree known on the planet.

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The Future, Post-Coal — ...

Sep 20, 2019 by

One point of agreement evident during a recent policy summit between Hopi and Navajo leaders was that the economy of northern Arizona can—and must—transcend its 20th-century past.

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A Stunning New Study Shows How...

Sep 20, 2019 by

“It’s just staggering.”

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How to save the planet in thre...

Sep 19, 2019 by

In a new video, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot explain that we must use nature to fix our broken climate.

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University of California to Di...

Sep 19, 2019 by

Writing in the Los Angeles Times, two top university investment officials said it was the long-term risk posed by fossil fuel investments, rather than concerns over the environment, that led them to pull some $150 million in fossil fuel assets from the university endowment.

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Why California is fighting fir...

Sep 19, 2019 by

What if the answer to California’s wildfire woes is more fire?

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Just How Good Is the Impossibl...

Sep 19, 2019 by

Meat consumption is a huge driver of global warming, from deforestation to cow farts. Meatless meat isn’t a miracle, though.

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Fossil fuel companies roll out...

Sep 17, 2019 by

Forget “climate change” and “global warming”: Environmental advocates are increasingly using phrases that emphasize the urgency of our planetary pickle, such as “climate crisis,” “climate emergency,” and “existential threat.”

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Trump to bar California from s...

Sep 17, 2019 by

The Trump administration will announce as early as Wednesday it is revoking California’s authority to set its own vehicle greenhouse gas standards and blocking states from setting tailpipe emission rules — a move that will spark a furious legal challenge, two auto industry officials said on Tuesday

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We Know There’s Lots of Plasti...

Sep 17, 2019 by

The contentious Ocean Cleanup campaign has an idea where it ends up. But it’s already stirring debate.

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Deforestation Is Getting Worse...

Sep 13, 2019 by

As fires in the Amazon draw attention to the problem, critics say big agribusinesses aren’t doing enough to stop deforestation in their supply chains.

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Interior Dept. Takes Next Step...

Sep 13, 2019 by

The Trump administration reached a milestone this week in its plan to open a pristine part of Alaska to oil and gas development with the release of a final report on the environmental impact of the plan.

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Artist plants a living forest ...

Sep 12, 2019 by

Austria’s Wörthersee football stadium is now thriving with life in an installation that is as beautiful as it is chilling.

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Trump Administration to Roll B...

Sep 12, 2019 by

The Trump administration on Thursday announced the repeal of a major Obama-era clean water regulation that had placed limits on polluting chemicals that could be used near streams, wetlands and other bodies of water.

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Today’s Special: Grilled Salmo...

Sep 12, 2019 by

We used to think microplastics stayed in a fish’s guts. Chilling new research suggests the tiny particles migrate into its flesh.

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Meat and plastic sales are slo...

Sep 11, 2019 by

As environmental awareness spreads, shoppers are making different choices.

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What Is Nitrous Oxide and Why ...

Sep 11, 2019 by

Despite its increasing role in global warming and effect on the ozone layer, little has been done to rein in this climate pollutant. One big reason: agriculture.

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Top Things Individuals can do ...

Sep 10, 2019 by

The topic of climate change is extremely controversial in today’s world as the impacts of this are being seen at all different corners of the globe. 

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After State Rejects Gas Pipeli...

Sep 9, 2019 by

UK-based National Grid, already under scrutiny at home, is now tangling with New York’s governor over plans for a new pipeline under Lower New York Bay.

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