Saturday, May 4, 2024

Nicaragua’s South Caribbean coast improves readiness for climate change

“The rise in temperatures is affecting people’s health and producing cardiac problems...”

Scientists develop new material to clean up forever chemicals

This sustainable PFAS clean-up system could scale for commercial use, leading to a better way to remove these chemical pollutants from the environment.

A Montana judge restores grizzly bears’ protection, overturns Trump administration’s policy

Judge Dana Christensen ruled that the Fish and Wildlife Service failed to consider the effects of the recovery of bears living throughout the country when it chose to remove protections for Yellowstone grizzly bears.

Oil pipeline Canada bought will cost over $25 billion and never turn profit

"Guaranteeing another $8.8 billion to complete the project will simply be throwing good money after bad," says a new analysis, "for a total taxpayer loss of $26.1 billion."

The words of water: Why environmentalists are losing the water wars

In the 1870s the colonizing American government rounded up “Indians” and put them in boarding schools and forced them to learn English....
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Josh Fox: Arrest of Journalists and Filmmakers Covering the Dakota Pipeline is a Threat...

“These people are not accessories to the crime, they are the media. This is a constitutionally protected activity.”

As climate emergency worsens, freak lightning storm sends snow, scorpion plague on Egypt’s Aswan

High winds blew the deadly Egyptian black, fat-tailed scorpions from the surrounding desert into the city and into people’s homes.

California briefly runs on 97% renewable energy, showing a future in which oil and...

If anyone is listening, what we really need is national financial instruments allowing families to pay off solar panels over time.

5 things to know about plastic pollution and how to stop it

Researchers continue to find new information about how widespread plastic pollution has become, but also how we can help stem the tide.

Seattle will ban plastic straws and utensils at restaurants next year

The exemption that allowed restaurants to dispense plastics is set to expire and will not be renewed.