Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Wisconsin oil refinery explosion injures at least 15 people

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board has sent a four-person team to investigate the incident.

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study

New research carried out in Colombia by the University of Cambridge suggests that local surveys assessing the effect of land clearances on biodiversity may be underestimating the impact by as much as 60 percent.

Conflict theory and biosphere annihilation

If you are not able to emulate Gandhi (at least ‘in spirit’) by living modestly, it is your own emotional dysfunctionality – particularly unconscious fear – that is the problem that needs to be addressed.
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Trump admin guts vital sea monitoring, ‘tears out the eyes and ears of science’:...

David Helvarg discusses the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean.

Say goodbye to your national parks road trips?

Get your hikes and other recreation in while you can. A new study finds warming temperatures could mean big changes in how we use our public lands.

The GOP tax bill is basically like throwing gasoline on the dumpster fire that...

The latest Republican scheme isn’t just bad news for the economy, it will be terrible for the environment.

Warming climate is the ‘decisive driver’ in spike of record-setting California wildfires

2018 brought several new records for disastrous and deadly wildfires in California.

Trump is pushing allies to buy US gas. It’s bad economics—and a catastrophe for...

As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets U.S. President Donald Trump this week, he will face pressure to boost U.S. fortunes—complicated by the fact that Australia is itself a major LNG exporter.

Indigenous people not invited to UN biodiversity talks

While Indigenous communities will be able to attend the U.N. conference as observers, they are not recognized as parties to the biodiversity talks and cannot vote on the outcome.