Saturday, November 14, 2026
A 19th-century Gray-Milne seismograph with recorder.

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake just shook southeast Victoria. Here’s why we may expect more

There’s a reason why Gippsland gets so many earthquakes, compared to most of Australia.

Environmental Activists Being Killed Globally: Why Are World Leaders Still Silent?

“Planet earth is a beautiful place and worth dying for” This is not a quote; this was a belief...

Water supplies strained for 30 million americans, new USGS report warns of national water...

Climate change and pollution threaten water access for millions across the U.S.

EPA and HHS sign agreement to expand glyphosate review as decision slips to 2027

The agencies created a joint working group of seven federal offices, while a Center for Food Safety scientist says the EPA has excluded 78% of studies as not relevant.
Land-surface temperatures around Phoenix during a record heat event. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech (public domain)

US heat deaths run five times higher than official counts, NPR investigation finds

The undercount traces back to how death certificates get written, researchers found, after NOAA confirmed 2026 brought the hottest summer on record.

New infographic shows how only 10 companies control every brand we know

Regardless of what the companies claim, the Big 10 do have the power and resources to address hunger and poverty within their supply chains.
A humpback whale breaching. Photo: Kaitlin Thoreson, National Park Service (public domain)

Whaling commission leaves the global ban in place as Antigua and Barbuda withdraws its...

A South Atlantic whale sanctuary also failed for a second time, falling short of the 75 percent majority it needed.
Water Street in downtown Eastport, Maine. Photo: Ken Gallager / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A week after Eastport banned data centers for 180 days, federal regulators accepted the...

The developer cut the plan from 400 acres to 27 and from 51 megawatts to 15 after FERC found four deficiencies, and comments close October 19.
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.
The Huntley Generating Station in Tonawanda, New York. Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

States sue EPA over repeal of power plant greenhouse gas limits

A coalition of attorneys general, governors and mayors asked the D.C. Circuit to restore the 2024 standards, which the EPA put at billion in avoided costs when it repealed them.