States can take meaningful climate action, even without federal support: Study
The team also found that there was potential for state efforts to impact pollution in neighboring states.
USDA Shirking Obligation to Give Consumers Clarity Over Herbicide Residues on Food
The Environmental Protection Agency, which sets the tolerance levels allowed for glyphosate and other pesticides has said glyphosate is safe at certain defined tolerance levels, and has actually raised those tolerance levels in recent years.
As extreme weather batters communities, New York climate activists show a powerful path forward
December’s protests helped push the Climate Change Superfund Act over the finish line while garnering national attention.
5 things to know about the fate of wild salmon
Historical pressures combined with new threats from climate change have pushed more than a dozen species close to extinction.
The dairy industry is determined to pour itself down our throats
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Even Tumbling Fossil Fuel Prices Can’t Deter Clean Energy Revolution
One of the biggest stories of 2015 was the sharp decline of oil prices, which fell this year to levels not seen in more than a decade.
UN report says up to 850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless...
Rather than prioritising the prevention of pandemic outbreaks, governments around the world primarily focus on responding.
‘It’s our future’: Meet the youth activists behind Fridays for Future Movements in Uganda...
"It is a very important issue for us because it’s us against our future. We either do something now or we don’t have a future."
Wildfire smoke could kill 71,000 people per year in the US by 2050, study...
A study published this week in Nature projects that wildfire smoke will cause approximately 71,000 excess deaths each year by 2050 under current emissions trends—an increase of roughly 30,000 deaths over today’s levels.
GOP-controlled House passes bill to eviscerate nation’s marine ecosystems, fisheries
If the bill becomes law, it "would reverse decades of bipartisan progress towards preventing overfishing and rebuilding fish populations, harming the health of our marine ecosystems and the coastal communities who depend on them."