4 of 5 world cities faced ‘significant climate hazards’ in 2022, study finds
“The more cities know about those risks and benefits, and the more they engage citizens in the work they’re doing to confront the climate crisis, the faster they can make progress.”
Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister, leaving UK in energy crisis turmoil
“I do want to accept responsibility and say sorry for the mistakes that have been made. I wanted to act to help people with their energy bills to deal with the issue of high taxes, but we went too far and too fast.”
EPA calls out environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
The Environmental Protection Agency said in a letter it sent last week to state regulators in response to civil rights complaints about air pollution in the region known as Cancer Alley.
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.