Big Oil undermines U.N. climat...

Sep 6, 2019 by

Major oil companies have approved $50 billion of projects since last year that will not be economically viable if governments implement the Paris Agreement on climate change, think-tank Carbon Tracker said in a report published on Friday.

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Data is Power: How Access to D...

Sep 5, 2019 by

Lessons and applications from the Atlantic and the Arctic.

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A step too far for the Appalac...

Sep 4, 2019 by

The Trump administration wants to allow a pipeline to cross the Appalachian Trail on federal lands. Congress should say no.

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Can Europe make trade into a t...

Sep 4, 2019 by

Many increasingly see environmental crises like the fires in the Amazon as global concerns. But how can remote actors like the EU make a difference, especially when regional players seem uninterested?

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Follow the Money to the Amazon

Sep 4, 2019 by

Who is profiting from the development that led to these fires?

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EPA publishes draft permit for...

Sep 3, 2019 by

Agency proposes to allow industrial ocean fish farm discharge of untreated fish waste and other toxins directly into Gulf of Mexico

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Alaska’s Sea Ice Completely Me...

Sep 3, 2019 by

[Translate] News Environment & Health People attend a monument unveiling at the site of Okjökull, Iceland’s first glacier...

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Almost All American Strawberri...

Sep 3, 2019 by

For a century, the industry has used fumigants to farm berries year-round.

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The Frauding of America’s Farm...

Aug 30, 2019 by

Trump’s biggest supporters are his biggest victims.

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One Very Bad Habit Is Fueling ...

Aug 30, 2019 by

It’s called “wishcycling,” and pretty much all of us do it.

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“God Told Me to Fight”—Inside ...

Aug 29, 2019 by

Houses, several churches, and an elementary school would all be about a mile away.

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Trump moves to allow logging i...

Aug 28, 2019 by

Meanwhile, the Amazon burns.

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The Amazon Is Not Earth’s Lung...

Aug 28, 2019 by

Humans could burn every living thing on the planet and still not dent its oxygen supply.

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Here’s a handy guide to ...

Aug 27, 2019 by

How often do you wonder about what can go in the recycling bin and what cannot? The answer varies from municipality to municipality, as each has its own facilities for recovering waste materials and not all are the same.

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The Three Most Viral Photos of...

Aug 27, 2019 by

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the most prominent celebrities sharing outdated photos of the Amazon on fire.

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The Amazon Cannot Be Recovered...

Aug 26, 2019 by

The fires blazing in Brazil are part of a larger deforestation crisis, accelerated by President Jair Bolsonaro.

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Parts of California are too wi...

Aug 26, 2019 by

California is facing yet another real estate-related crisis, but we’re not talking about its sky-high home prices. According to newly released data, it’s simply become too risky to insure houses in big swaths of the wildfire-prone state.

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How plastics contribute to cli...

Aug 23, 2019 by

They generate heat-trapping gases at every stage of their life cycle.

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PHOTOS: The Amazon Rainforest,...

Aug 23, 2019 by

International concern is growing over the rapidly spreading fires that are destroying large swaths of the Amazon rainforest

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Air Monitoring Reveals Troubli...

Aug 23, 2019 by

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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MAR VISTA FARMERS MARKET FACES...

Aug 22, 2019 by

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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Appeals Court Rules Against Co...

Aug 22, 2019 by

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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Lawsuit filed over awful chang...

Aug 22, 2019 by

Environmental and animal protection groups have sued the administration over the Trump-Bernhardt ‘extinction plan.’

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Did North Dakota Regulators Hi...

Aug 21, 2019 by

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.

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Without Bees, We Are in Troubl...

Aug 21, 2019 by

Can an alliance of Germany’s political parties save them?

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The Thick Gray Line: Forest El...

Aug 20, 2019 by

If the species is wiped out by poachers, Africa’s vast rain forest will lose 7 percent of its carbon storage ability, scientists estimate.

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Iceland marks lost glacier wit...

Aug 19, 2019 by

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.

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Loving a vanishing world

Aug 17, 2019 by

I want to talk about power — how much we have, and how we can use it meaningfully.

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Plastics In Rainwater, Plastic...

Aug 16, 2019 by

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.

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Fracking and Shale Drilling Ca...

Aug 16, 2019 by

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.

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