Saturday, May 25, 2024

America’s carbon-pusher in chief

Trump’s fossil-fueled foreign policy.

New York state’s pension fund will divest from fossil fuel

This is being hailed as "the most aggressive divestment target set by any U.S. pension fund by a decade."

We ignore thousands of threatened plant species at our own peril

Kokia drynarioides is a small but significant flowering tree endemic to Hawaii’s dry forests. Native Hawaiians used its large, scarlet flowers to...

We’re not fixing this environmental crisis. One ditch in Indiana could provide a solution.

Shut off this firehose of waste, and we’d be improving habitats, health and the makeup of the atmosphere.

Despite what the logging industry says, cutting down trees isn’t stopping catastrophic wildfires

Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires, but science doesn’t support that.

In a sign of cleanup success, dolphins are living and giving birth in the...

"People actually forgot that there were dolphins in the river because they hadn't been seen since the 1880s."

Will 2022 mark the turning point in the climate crisis?

This year the international community might finally be getting serious about climate change.
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Deadly oil spill leaves Indonesian Bay ‘like a gas station’

Hundreds of locals have reported health issues including difficulty breathing, nausea and vomiting from the smell of fuel and black smoke.

How climate change could reshape the US 2020 election?

If the presidential race is close, the how or whether to address environmental change in a considerable style could have the effect among triumph and defeat.

Trump administration says it isn’t anti-science as it seeks to slash EPA science office

The Office of Research and Development has been at the front line of virtually every environmental crisis. Trump wants to cut its funding in half.