‘Hidden killer’: experts urge action after study shows how air pollution causes lung cancer
"If you want to address human health, you have to address climate health first," said Charles Swanton, who led the research team.
Even red states are going solar, dumping coal, as just good business
Republican decision-makers increasingly see solar as just a good business investment that produces electricity more cost-effectively than coal.
UN group wants to make sure corporate net-zero pledges aren’t just greenwashing
"But we also urgently need every business, investor, city, state and region to walk the talk on their net-zero promises.”
Millions of tons of invisible nanoplastics found polluting North Atlantic Ocean
New research finds an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic, raising concerns for marine ecosystems and human health.
Climate scientists attack Tony Abbott’s ‘misleading’ speech to Global Warming Policy Foundation
Abbott told the GWPF that rising carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning could be “beneficial.”
The slow-motion equivalent of a nuclear war?
A "new Cold War" on an ever-hotter planet
California’s opportunity to shape worldwide biodiversity policy
The United States has failed to take leadership in the Convention on Biological Diversity. Its most biodiverse state can fill that gap.
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.”
‘We need to act now’: Study reveals glaciers melting at unprecedented pace
“A doubling of the thinning rates in 20 years for glaciers outside Greenland and Antarctica tells us we need to change the way we live,” the study’s lead author said.
Community-based farms rise to the occasion as big food supply chains stall
Organic CSA farms like Massaro in Connecticut have been able to nimbly reorient marketing and production to serve the urgent needs of their communities.