Thursday, March 28, 2024

Despite what the logging industry says, cutting down trees isn’t stopping catastrophic wildfires

Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires, but science doesn’t support that.

US Fish and Wildlife Service delists gray wolves from Endangered Species Act

The final rule, which excludes Mexican wolves, will be published in the Federal Register on Nov. 3 and go into effect 60 days later.

Trump approved shipping tar sands by rail to Alaska. The project’s owners are banking...

“The irony of seeing the melting Arctic as a route to get more planet-heating carbon out of the ground is almost too deep and sad for words.”

UN report says up to 850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless...

Rather than prioritising the prevention of pandemic outbreaks, governments around the world primarily focus on responding.

North Dakota to spend $16 million in pandemic relief funds on fracking

“We are at a point now where we are peaking every day as we try to battle this crisis, and I think any of the funds that we use need to be addressed to help us reduce the spread of this virus to help the lives and livelihoods of thousands of North Dakotans.”

EPA approves use of herbicides linked to cancer and crop cross contamination

Dicamba, the main ingredient in the three herbicides, is "highly volatile and can easily drift onto unprotected neighboring fields from fields of crops genetically engineered to withstand it."

Scientists at two of America’s giant automaker companies knew about car emission climate effects...

“Another cog in the climate denial machine rattles loose.”

‘One word for this: vandalism’: Six days before election, Trump finalizes plan for ‘catastrophic’...

“Destructive development in the country’s largest national forest—such as extractive logging and expansive road building—will be catastrophic for generations to come,” warned Greenpeace.

The Koch operatives behind the Trump energy department’s renewables research censorship

“There are dozens of reports languishing right now that can’t be published. This is a systemic issue.”