Environment

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that 19.6% of mangroves, or about one in five, "are considered to be at severe risk of collapse, meaning they rank as endangered or critically endangered."

A new international report on pollinators highlights the threats faced by the wild species that farmers rely on.

While the full health impacts of the fire weren’t immediately known, a storm-driven chlorine gas release in a vulnerable community is the type of worst-case scenario that scientists and engineers like myself have warned the petrochemical industry about for decades.

“It is another terrifying example of how our violent interventions abroad come home to haunt us in the form of repression and violation of our civil rights.”

"Congress must hold hearings and investigate how it is possible that the EPA, the White House, and HHS have, for months, possessed research that could have helped families understand the health impacts of their exposure to toxic chemicals."

"[D]espite major growth in renewables, global emissions are still rising, demonstrating once again that more urgent action is needed on all fronts."

Analysis shows more health violations but much less federal enforcement at tribal water treatment plants, suggesting “regulatory neglect.”

"That has some very interesting and I think important consequences for how we understand the hazard posed by oilfield wastewater disposal."

Fossil fuel stakeholders have been seeking new revenue in the petrochemical industry in general, and plastics in particular.

Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) introduced a bill in Congress a few weeks ago that would modernize the hemp industry, develop specific guidelines and...