Environment

"The sea bed is teeming with life. We really need a mission to planet ocean – it's the last frontier."

With this year being the warmest in recorded history, we begin the year with climate activist and author Bill McKibben voicing the dangers of not confronting global warming. Consider this a warning.

If deforestation emissions were represented as a country, they’d be the fourth biggest emitter behind China, the U.S. and India.

Fossil fuel interest groups are telling New Mexicans: Let us keep drilling or the state’s education system will collapse.

Officials said the leak might be from the Main Pass Oil Gathering Company's (MPOG) pipeline system off the coast of New Orleans.

“This is a big deal. For New Jersey to step to the forefront and say, ‘We’re going to look at future climate impacts, and that it’s going to be a driver of our decision-making’ — that’s exactly what all 50 states need to be doing.”

While the rest of the world moves toward a renewable energy future, dirty energy defenders in the Trump administration are using our taxpayer dollars to promote dangerous new fossil fuel development.

Reckless individualism delivers just as many body blows to collective freedom as fascism, communism or fundamentalism.

According to the environmental advocacy group Clean Water Action, the announcement appears to be in violation of DOGGR’s own compliance schedule, which requires all injection well operators that have not obtained an aquifer exemption from the EPA to cease injection by February 15, 2017.

Massive traditional fish traps called fish fences catch hundreds of types of fish – many before they’re old enough to reproduce.