Scientists find direct link between polar bear cub survival rates and human-caused carbon emissions
The new study connects the number of Arctic ice-free days to specific quantities of emissions and determines how these ice-free days can impact polar bear cub survival rates.
USPS announces electrification of mail truck fleet
New electric mail trucks are expected to begin servicing postal routes in late 2023.
UK government confirms ban on plastic straws, stirrers and cotton swabs
"So today I am taking action to turn the tide on plastic pollution, and ensure we leave our environment in a better state for future generations."
Three states petition EPA to classify PFAS compounds as hazardous air pollutants
North Carolina, New Jersey and New Mexico petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to begin regulating PFAS “forever chemical” air emissions.
Appeals court reverses decision stopping Bayou Bridge pipeline work through Cypress swamp
“We will continue fighting to hold this reckless company accountable for its weekly acts of water pollution and harm to communities.”
Another oil train crashes as Alberta Government gets into oil-by-rail business
Oil trains will continue to derail and cause large fires and spills.
Tyson Foods uses land twice the size of New Jersey to feed its factory...
“When a single company has leverage over so much farmland, its actions have substantial consequences."
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.
EPA extends use of Monsanto’s controversial pesticide dicamba on GM soybean and cotton plants
"Simply adding more use restrictions to an uncontrollable pesticide that already comes with 39 pages of instructions and limitations reflects a broken process."
New study confirms Arctic Ocean has been warming decades longer than scientists thought
Published in Science Advances, scientists determined that "Atlantification," which is "the recent expansion of Atlantic waters in the Arctic Ocean," was taking place several decades before the recording.