Wildfires can reduce biodiversity—can biodiversity be used to reduce wildfires?
A biodiversity experiment in Australia showed animal species can help reduce flammable leaf litter by 24 percent.
House Republicans move to block EPA action on toxic PFAS in farm fertilizers
A provision in the latest GOP spending bill would halt enforcement of an EPA risk assessment warning that sewage sludge fertilizer contaminates farmland with cancer-linked forever chemicals.
How Indigenous peoples won a landmark victory protecting the Amazon from oil drilling
The Waorani people of Ecuador won a historic lawsuit to save their homes – and the planet – from destruction.
The fracking industry’s water nightmare
Water itself now poses a risk to the already failing financial model of the American fracking industry, and that is something the industry won’t be able to ignore.
Right-wing Supreme Court justices ‘just further poisoned your water’
The move, said one attorney, "shows disregard for the integrity of the Clean Water Act and undermines the rights of tribes and states to review and reject dirty fossil fuel projects that threaten their water."
Biden-Harris administration preserves 28 million acres of Alaska public lands, prioritizing Tribal rights and...
The Biden-Harris administration’s decision to retain protections for 28 million acres in Alaska marks a significant reversal of the previous administration’s plans to open these lands to extractive industries, preserving vital natural, cultural, and subsistence resources for Alaska Native communities.
Superbug risk rises as Big Pharma fails to disclose antibiotic waste leaked from factories
This risks creating more superbugs.
Oil and pipeline companies are backing a ‘water quality restoration’ project in North America’s...
“The idea that this is an experimental project is absurd because we’ve done this numerous times.”
As the planet warms and mosquitos thrive, one billion people could be exposed to...
“The risk of disease transmission is a serious problem, even over the next few decades."
Indigenous women call upon Biden to stop pipelines and uphold Indigenous rights in the...
““No more broken promises, no more broken Treaties.”