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I have disturbing news I want to share with you. Following Hopi Tribe’s major legal defeat in losing water rights to LCR, a company called Pump Hydro — Storage LLC is proposing to build 2 dams near Sipaapu and Blue Springs. Both are critical to survival of Hopi culture and religion. It appears Navajo Nation is involved in some way.
read moreThe melting of glaciers and loss of snow has a cascading effect for ecosystems, agriculture and billions of people downstream.
read moreThe island, which has an unusual history and considerable real estate potential, could host a complex devoted to climate policy under the plan, which is in its early stages.
read moreNot only is Joe Biden innocent of any wrongdoing in Ukraine — as almost every legitimate news organization now acknowledges — but his actions concerning his son’s business interests there were precisely the opposite of the smears launched against him by the Trump campaign.
read moreArchitects have enormous sway in specifying building materials and modes of operation; they also understand the political, budget, and client-education barriers to executing zero-carbon designs better than anyone.
read moreAt the instigation of architect Ed Mazria, last week’s conference traced how carbon becomes operationalized in the built environment.
read moreWorkers are getting injured, but the Department of Agriculture says their safety is not its responsibility.
read morePennsylvania is the nation’s No. 2 natural gas producer, and No. 3 in coal. Its governor says ‘we need to get serious’ about the climate crisis.
read moreIt only took six years, tens of millions of dollars, and a few unsuccessful attempts (or “unscheduled learning opportunities,” in the words of 25-year-old founder and CEO Boyan Slat). The nonprofit’s prior, unsuccessful designs failed to catch any plastic, broke, or overflowed.
read moreTwo Australian scientists speak of their personal grief and anxiety concerning the conditions of the iconic Great Barrier Reef. Reposted from The Conversation with permission.
read moreLast week, the Heartland Institute was again trumpeting climate science denial at its 13th “International Conference on Climate Change” at the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. But by a number of measures, the Chicago-based free market think tank’s science denial doesn’t exactly seem to be a growing — or cohesive — movement at this point.
read moreWe 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.
read morePresident 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.
read moreAt the instigation of architect Ed Mazria, last week’s conference traced how carbon becomes operationalized in the built environment.
read moreCan something under threat also be a source of its own salvation? Climate change is wreaking havoc on the oceans. But the seas also hold tremendous potential for mitigation.
read moreHumans are innovators and tend to look to technology to solve problems. But increasingly, people are turning to the natural world for solutions as well. For Houston, that means reintroducing the prairie.
read moreUkraine’s former president categorically denied that Joe Biden had ever asked him to open or close any criminal cases, effectively knocking down President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theory about the former vice president.
read moreThe 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.
read moreA Trump-appointed judge was involved in the ruling. Without a strong plan for cutting coal power plant emissions, meeting ozone requirements gets much harder.
read moreIf you want to upend a half-century of legal tradition, you better have a damn-solid argument to justify your move. Especially if it’s a legal move so broad that it could nullify local speed limits.
read moreA massive iceberg with the robotic sounding name D28 has separated in recent days from an ice sheet in Antarctica, prompting both awe and concern around the world.
read moreEstudio Cavernas trains Burmese migrants to sustainably construct their own community center at the heart of a municipal waste site.
read moreWith a damning record of his extortionate call with the Ukrainian president public for all to see, President Donald Trump is facing the strongest political headwinds he has seen and staring down the barrel of a daunting and potent impeachment inquiry.
read more‘We are in a moment in our lives in this country where this guy is like a gangster,’ says actor
read moreA small survey by Bosch shows that U.S. homeowners feel guilty about wasting food, but need to change their habits.
read moreTheir research is helping answer existential questions of our time: How much will sea level rise, how fast, and what will be the impact on human civilizations?
read moreTiny glass beads might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against climate change, but they may end up playing an outsize role in tackling one of the natural world’s most dire predicaments.
read moreKnowing the answer might force us toward a real solution.
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