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.
Are hazardous vapors seeping into your home?
The movement of underground contaminants into buildings is attracting increased scrutiny from health experts, advocates and agencies.
The paper company threatening ancient boreal forests – and activists and journalists
Resolute Forest Products provides the paper for the nation’s biggest newspapers and publishers. So it’s up to independent media to speak out.
‘A wake-up call’: Study finds extinction risk for 30% of tree species
“Strengthened action is urgently required to prevent further species extinctions and restore damaged and degraded ecosystems.”
Native Americans sue frackers over manmade earthquakes in Oklahoma
“If an earthquake comes through here and destroys the buildings, we can rebuild. But if you pollute our water, we’re done."
Maine becomes ninth state to sue Big Oil for climate deception
The state will take fossil fuel companies including Chevron, BP and ExxonMobil to court for climate lies and damages.
Climate change is depleting plant nutrition, threatening herbivores from grasshoppers to giant pandas
Rising CO2 levels are driving faster plant growth but reducing nutrient density, with alarming impacts across ecosystems.gian
Firefighters race to protect world’s largest tree from menacing wildfires
Sequoias have evolved to withstand wildfires and even to spread their seeds with help from the heat. However, the more intense fires fueled by the climate crisis can be too much even for these trees.
Climate change and the deportation machine: A match forged in hell, Hurricane Harvey edition
Undocumented Texans in Hurricane Harvey’s path face a horrifying choice: deportation or risk of death.
The rest of the story—Monsanto owner Bayer struggles to shed Roundup litigation woes
Monsanto owner, Bayer AG, is contemplating pulling the popular herbicide from the residential market as it struggles to cement a strategy to limit ongoing litigation.