Tuesday, July 29, 2025

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.

93% of the Great Barrier Reef is Now Bleached

Coral bleaching events in 1998 led to a death of 16 percent of the world’s coral. This time it may be worse.

Tigers and leopards to get new national park in China, 60% bigger than Yellowstone

A monitoring and rescue center for wild tigers and leopards will be set up, along with scientific and research facilities to complement the national park.

Collusion or coincidence? Records show EPA efforts to slow herbicide review came in coordination...

Released communications show the EPA and Monsanto working in concert to stall a toxicology review that a unit tied to the CDC was conducting on glyphosate.

New Jersey sues five oil companies, alleging decades of ‘concealment’ and ‘public deception’ on...

The New Jersey legal campaign, like the others, seeks compensation from the oil industry for the large and growing destructive cost of the worsening climate crisis.  

Former Koch agents, fossil fuel industry hired guns now staffing Trump’s federal agencies

The Trump transition team was loaded with Koch-tied operatives, many from the Institute for Energy Research, a Koch-funded group which helped carve out the Trump White House's energy policy.

Extreme weather events are the new frontline of online climate denial—report

Analyzing Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube, it found that three quarters of the most popular misleading posts focused on extreme weather events.

USDA may allow genetically modified trees to be released into the wild

“Our natural forests that support wildlife and the economic sovereignty of rural communities will rapidly be replaced with tree plantations for wood pellets, paper and more, leaving environmental and climate injustice in their wake.”

Scientists, climate experts endorse Joe Biden as 2020 presidential candidate

"On Earth Day, we speak with one voice: we must elect Joe Biden the next president of the United States—for all our sakes."

How Australia’s ‘fever swamp’ of climate science denial is pushing a non-scandal about temperatures

Australia’s network of climate science deniers continue to grasp at straws.