Wednesday, September 30, 2026

‘We don’t trust Enbridge’: Indigenous women push Biden to block line 5 expansion

"The construction of this pipeline will bring massive risk and destruction. We do not want to see irreversible damage to our land, water, and wild rice. We do not want our lifeways destroyed."

Dead Bees Tell a Tale of Dozens of Pesticides

Fifty-seven agricultural chemicals are found in victims of mysterious colony collapse disorder.

20,000 scientists have now signed ‘warning to humanity’

"Especially troubling is the current trajectory of potentially catastrophic climate change."
An aerial view of Boulder City and Lake Mead, Nevada. Photo: Doc Searls/CC BY 2.0

Federal panel halts first AI data center approved on US public land

The board found regulators treated an 88.5-acre data center as barely different from the solar farm it was supposed to replace.

Student reporters in West Virginia find Atlantic Coast Pipeline offers only two dozen permanent...

“It was trouble finding out how many jobs the pipeline would create.”

France to ban sale of cars powered by gasoline and diesel

France intends to end oil and gas exploration in French territory, eliminate coal-fired power plants by 2022 and encourage homeowners to produce their own energy.

Bottom-dwelling marine animals thriving on offshore wind farm foundations

"My feeling is that a smart, science-based location of offshore wind farms, where ecological principles are incorporated in the design is needed to combat climate change.”

Japanese fisheries collapsed due to pesticides, new research says

"Let's hope this is a wake-up call for Asian countries and they move to quickly ban the chemicals from paddyfields."

Wildfire smoke exposure linked to increased COVID deaths

Health experts have suspected since the early days of the pandemic that a link existed between air pollution and the likelihood of catching the disease and experiencing a more severe infection.

How $9 billion from taxpayers fueled plastics production – and illegal pollution

A new report estimates the public cost of underwriting U.S. plastics industry growth and the environmental violations that followed.