Protests begin in DC after motion to halt Dakota Access is denied
Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline company that owns Dakota Access, has already been drilling under Lake Oahe for weeks.
NASA: July Was Earth’s Hottest Month in Recorded History
Hello global warming: not only is 2016 shaping up to be the hottest year on record, but July 2016 is officially the warmest month of any in a data record that can be extended back to the nineteenth century.
Sorry, Feds: Kids Can Sue Over Climate Negligence, Judge Says
"This will be the trial of the century that will determine if we have a right to a livable future, or if corporate power will continue to deny our rights for the sake of their own wealth."
The impact of plastic on human health
We know that plastic is choking the planet. But it could be killing us, too.
New data reveals annual increase in US trophy trade trends between 2016 and 2020
“The vast volume of hunting trophies pouring into the United States represents a massive exploitation of wildlife during a global extinction crisis.”
Cassini space probe contains more deadly plutonium than has ever been used on a...
“The Global Network remains adamantly opposed to the use of nuclear power in space.”
The climate crisis and Korea
By setting aside their myriad differences, North and South Korea can show the rest of the world that addressing the climate emergency must take precedence over all other disagreements.
The Bumblebee Could Be the Next Endangered Species
With a 90 percent population decline in the last two decades, the rusty patched bumblebee must be protected by the Endangered Species Act to survive.
The student-built website that keeps government climate data safe
Since Trump’s election, scientists have been scrambling to save climate change data sets. And one Michigan graduate student thought the more copies, the better.
‘Plastic rain’ is pouring down in national parks
The plastic is trapped in fundamental atmospheric processes and falling all over the world, making plastic rain the new acid rain.