Biodiversity: How our health and happiness depend on a thriving planet
We depend on biodiversity in the natural world for the water we drink, the food we eat and the clean air we breathe.
The nasty fallout from North Carolina’s powerful hog industry
What smells more -- the politics or the pigs?
‘Bridge to climate chaos’: New report details urgent need for total US fracking ban
“Unless we ban fracking, these terrifying climate trends will intensify.”
‘Virtually no risk of drilling restrictions,’ West Virginia official tells fracking-reliant petrochemical industry
This week, at an industry conference focused on wooing petrochemical producers to West Virginia, officials from the state and federal government made...
Why Trump wants to kill the biggest environmental law you’ve never heard of
NEPA is one of the biggest federal policies ever enacted to protect our environment. But Trump is out to gut it — here's why.
Trump pick for White House environmental council profited from oil drilling, energy industry speaking...
“It’s unsettling to learn about the close ties that White has to the very interests and entities that she’s been tasked to oversee.”
California joins states suing Big Oil for its role in the climate crisis
California is also encouraging other states and even other countries to step into the ring alongside it in the effort to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable.
Antarctic ice melt has tripled in five years
"A three-fold increase now puts Antarctica in the frame as one of the largest contributors to sea-level rise."
‘A new and unanticipated danger of plastic pollution’: New study shows plastic’s effect on...
The study is the first of its kind to look at the impacts of plastic on this type of bacteria.
The Rover pipeline is a climate disaster
“The Rover pipeline is another disaster brought to you by Energy Transfer Partners.”