Josh Fox: Arrest of Journalists and Filmmakers Covering the Dakota Pipeline is a Threat...
“These people are not accessories to the crime, they are the media. This is a constitutionally protected activity.”
Local newspapers are lifelines for climate-disaster communities
Can they survive the news desert?
How 77 tons of radioactive waste ended up in Brooklyn
A lawsuit charges National Grid, a major gas utility, with mismanaging a toxic industrial site near two densely-populated residential neighborhoods.
Water contaminant levels can remain high for eight years after a wildfire, study finds
Scientists are warning that wildfire pollutants can continue to contaminate local waterways for up to eight years after a wildfire event.
Horseshoe crab blood key to COVID-19 vaccine despite negative impact it could have on...
“An estimated 50,000 of them die in the [vaccine] process and human interference also means that the species is now vulnerable to extinction."
World’s first commercial carbon sucking machine turns greenhouse gas into fertilizer
“It is clear today that we won't be able to achieve zero gigatonnes by the end of the century without the use of carbon removal technologies.”
Report: Plastics, oil industry deceived public on recycling use for more than 50 years
Industries knew plastics could not be recycled, yet they promoted it to boost disposability profits, echoing Big Tobacco’s campaigns of deception.
Trump administration plans to open more of California public land to oil drilling, fracking
“Expanding extraction of dirty fossil fuels on our public lands threatens the health of our communities and the future of our climate."
Germany’s new wildflower meadows offer urban safe havens to bees and insects
thanks to wildflower meadows being planted precisely to reverse precipitous declines in insect populations.
In the water-scarce Southwest, an ancient irrigation system disrupts big agriculture
In New Mexico and Colorado, the “acequia” is more than just democratic water distribution – it is at the center of Southwest culture.