Environment

“It is clearly time to reduce these emissions. They are easy to fix. We have the technology to fix them.”

Understanding how climate change will impact mountain glaciers is the ultimate goal of the Perpetual Planet expeditions, of which the Everest trip was the first.

Conventional farming practices that degrade soil health undermine humanity’s ability to continue feeding everyone over the long run.

The administration allowed DAPL to continue pumping oil despite lacking a key federal permit.

"The climate crisis is a child rights crisis."

Washington state is considering putting a price on carbon emissions. This will not fix our climate problem and, in fact, will help fossil fuel companies continue to profit from it.

Internal records from the Bureau of Land Management contradict what its chief told Congress about a plan to ship 200 D.C.-based career staff out West. The plan would weaken the agency, which stands between federal lands and oil, gas and mineral companies.

The communities surrounding these terminals are constantly at risk of being inundated with a stew of oil and toxic materials."

At the U.S. Olympic marathon trials held in Los Angeles to choose the team for the Rio Olympic Games this year, 30 percent of the runners dropped out of the race due to the heat. It will be even worse 4 years from now.

“There is evidence that Black people have three times the hazard from long-term exposure to fine particles [soot] than the general population."