Environmental racism is poisoning America’s waters
Thousands of people in U.S. cities have been left without access to clean water. Communities say institutional racism is to blame.
New oil slick in Long Beach has campaigners demanding environmental change statewide
"How many more oil spills and fossil fuel accidents do we need until the city and the state begins to prioritize public health and the environment?"
New Jersey sues five oil companies, alleging decades of ‘concealment’ and ‘public deception’ on...
The New Jersey legal campaign, like the others, seeks compensation from the oil industry for the large and growing destructive cost of the worsening climate crisis.
Enough commercial fishing gear lost in ocean each year to stretch to moon and...
The amount of gear lost annually includes more than 25 million traps and pots and almost 14 billion longline hooks.
Human prehistory—why new discoveries about human origins open up revolutionary possibilities
It is one thing to analyze a given set of stone tools made by long-extinct hominin cousins and quite another to ask what their transposed significance to contemporary society might be.
The climate crisis could make your grocery bill even higher
“I don’t think farming in California has ever been more complex and more challenging."
More than 57,000 U.S. locations likely contaminated with PFAS
The researchers' hope that their map can be a tool for both other scientists and state and federal regulators to better understand and manage PFAS pollution in the U.S.
California becomes first state to ban plastic produce bags
The bill, known as Senate Bill (SB) 1046, stipulates that stores can only provide so-called “precheckout bags” if they are compostable or made from recyclable paper.
600 million metric tons of plastic may fill oceans by 2036 if we don’t...
Fossil fuel stakeholders have been seeking new revenue in the petrochemical industry in general, and plastics in particular.
Dance, dance revolution: Glasgow nightclub launches system to power venue with dancing
“If we can make it work here in this environment, there’s no reason why we can’t take it to other venues, not just here in Scotland and the UK, across Europe and further afield.”