We’ve got another ozone proble...
Most of us know ozone as that benevolent stratospheric layer that absorbs the sun’s harmful UV light and keeps us safe.
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Land degradation represents “one of the biggest and most urgent challenges” that humanity faces.
read moreFarmers hit back after Departm...
Farmers facing record bankruptcies and collapsing incomes due to President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with China were not amused by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s joke about their economic pain during an event in Minnesota last week.
read moreSolar Power Is Playing A Growi...
The US Department of Agriculture has announced that it will no longer track honeybee populations or collect data for its Honey Bee Colonies Report.
read moreAnother Death in Louisiana’s C...
On August 7, after Geraldine Mayho’s funeral, her body was laid to rest in the St. James Catholic Cemetery in southern Louisiana, across the street from a cluster of oil storage tanks.
read morePlanting Trees Is Good. Elimin...
The UN report says we just have to stop cutting them down.
read moreHow Concerned Is Your US Regio...
As I walked the Florida beach on this August morning, I surveyed the wrack line. Interspersed with shells, empty turtle eggs, drying seaweed, skate egg cases, coconut fronts, dead coral pieces, and sea glass, I could see small and large bits of plastic.
read moreIndonesian flooding disaster b...
TAPUWATU, Indonesia — Muhammad Arfa says he thinks a miracle saved his home.
read moreEnvironmental racism is bad fo...
Two new books highlight how pollution is corrupting the bodies — and minds — of people of color.
read moreEPA Stops Collecting Data on P...
EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler exempted farms from reporting hazardous air emissions from animal waste. Prior to this action, farms that emitted 100 pounds or more of ammonia or hydrogen sulfide per day into the air were required to report to local agencies.
read moreOopsie, this popular ‘composta...
Hello, it’s me: your friendly neighborhood environmental journalist, here to ruin your day. Or the very least, your lunch.
read moreA New Study Reveals Just How T...
Here’s what happened when farmers started using a new class of insecticides.
read moreWhat’s in the way of this Texa...
The golden-cheeked warbler, an endangered songbird native to Central Texas, always seems to be flitting around controversy.
read moreGoodbye, Snails
Once, snails decorated the forests of Hawaii like Christmas ornaments. There were more than 750 unique species, which descended from ancestral mollusks that arrived on the islands millions of years ago. Hawaii’s snails were exemplars of evolution’s generative prowess.
read moreSo Long and Thanks for all the...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has once again washed its hands of its responsibility to protect the health and safety of our waterways.
read moreEthiopia plants 350 million tr...
Ethiopia’s ambitious national reforestation program seeks to plant 4 billion trees by October.
read moreAutomakers, Rejecting Trump Po...
Four of the world’s largest automakers have struck a deal with California to reduce automobile emissions, siding with the state in its fight with President Trump over one of his most consequential regulatory rollbacks.
read more7 steps in the process of meta...
The metal recycling process is a very important and useful process. It has a major advantage over the other processes. The basic properties of metal do not change even after repeated recycling over and over again. It prevents the exploitation of energy and damage to the environment.
read moreThe environmental case for a T...
On July 1, 2019, the boards members of Friends of the Earth and Friends of the Earth Action passed a resolution calling on Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to begin an impeachment inquiry on Donald Trump.
read moreEPA proposal scraps limits on ...
The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed scrapping restrictions on arsenic-laden waste from coal-fired power plants.
read moreThe deadliest environmental ca...
In December 2018, the bodies of brothers Neri and Domingo Esteban Pedro were found along the banks of Guatemala’s Yal Witz River, shot in the head. The two had recently rallied against a dam in the Ixquisis region of San Mateo Ixtatán in the western part of the country.
read moreNARF’s Commitment to Environme...
It is clear that our natural world is undergoing severe, catastrophic climate change that adversely impacts the lives of people and ecosystems worldwide. Native Americans and Alaska Natives are especially vulnerable and are experiencing disproportionate negative impacts on their cultures, health, and food systems.
read moreLouisiana’s coastline is disap...
In Louisiana, the loss of thousands of acres of coastline each year is driving residents to build common ground together. This story is part of an occasional Monitor series on “Climate Realities.”
read moreManmade Antarctic snowstorm &#...
Blowing trillions of tonnes of snow on to ice sheet could halt its collapse, researchers say
read moreAlaska’s Hess Creek Fire...
The Hess Creek Fire has been burning since June 21 in the middle of the state near Livengood, about 80 miles north of the city of Fairbanks.
read moreActivists Call on Retiring FER...
For the past 30 years FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has voted in favor of 398 out of 400 applications for mostly fracked gas interstate pipelines and related projects.
read moreBerkeley bans: straws, plastic...
Environmentalists have cheered “valve turners” who illegally cut off oil and gas flows through pipelines. Now their political allies are turning off valves on gas pipelines that connect to buildings in their own towns.
read moreWhat would a world without sha...
At the rate we’re killing them, we may soon see it firsthand.
read more‘Toxic Stew’ Stirred Up ...
New research shows that the extreme weather and fires of recent years, similar to the flooding that has struck Louisiana and the Midwest, may be making Americans sick in ways researchers are only beginning to understand.
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