Seals Reveal How Antarctic Sea Ice Melt Affects Ocean Currents
A southern elephant seal has been pressed into service as an all-weather submersible to investigate and record data from the polynya system of the southern ocean sea ice.
Trump budget proposal reveals regressive environmental priorities
The White House’s 2021 federal budget proposal eliminates several important programs and slashes funding for others—like the Endangered Species Act.
EPA updates plans to limit use of science in decision-making
"They're putting in nonscientific criteria to decide what science the agency can use."
10 things we’ve learned a decade after the Deepwater Horizon disaster
Are we any closer to preventing a similar—or worse—catastrophe?
Security firm running Dakota Access Pipeline intelligence has ties to U.S. military work in...
“It is another terrifying example of how our violent interventions abroad come home to haunt us in the form of repression and violation of our civil rights.”
Replacing 50% of animal products with plant-based foods could prevent 1.6 billion tons of...
“Moving the American appetite from our burger-heavy diet to plant-based eating is a powerful and necessary part of curbing the climate crisis.”
Biden announces $2 trillion climate and green recovery plan
Biden's sweeping proposals would put an end to all greenhouse gas emissions spewed by U.S. power plants by 2035. It would also ban fracking on public lands.
National Park service’s tweets on climate facts mysteriously disappear
Despite Trump's gag order, the National Parks Service is refusing to be silenced.
Two bills introduced to save the monarch butterfly
“These bills will provide a lifeline for monarch butterflies whose populations have declined dramatically due to pesticide use, climate change, and habitat loss.”
A leaking oil refinery on St. Croix gives Biden his first environmental justice test
Nearly 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for the closure of a controversial oil and gas facility that has sickened residents of the U.S. Virgin Island.