Environment

A new first-in-the-nation law will shield residents from arrest as they use direct action to stop fracking-wastewater injection wells.

“Governments must urgently adopt circular economy solutions if we want to achieve a high quality of life for close to 10 billion people by mid-century without destabilizing critical planetary processes.”

When animal tourism resumes in Bali after COVID-19, there is an opportunity to do better by the lives of animals.

Collaborative efforts between forest agencies and Indigenous communities are improving wildfire management by combining oral histories with long-term archaeological datasets, demonstrating the value of integrating an understanding of the past into solutions for a better future.

Japan’s environmental minister recommended yesterday the country should release more than one million tons of radioactive wastewater from Fukushima’s nuclear power plant...

"The climate change counter movement, as I call it, is really an add-on to the already-existing conservative movement in the United States."

While the monarch butterfly remains a candidate for the list, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found listing actions for 161 species on the National Listing Workplan a higher priority.

What's more, Pakistan is among the six countries that will be most affected by climate change, meaning that reforestation is critical to mitigate the impacts of global warming.

"With their high profit margins, dollar stores must do more to ensure that all of these products are safe."

The 24” diameter pipeline responsible for the blast had gone into service just seven days earlier.