Tag: environment
Trump admin sits on $43 billion intended for clean energy loans...
"These utility-led programs could drive significant job and economic growth statewide as we step out of our current pause."
The final frontiers? A call to protect the biodiversity on the...
Trump’s border wall is not alone. Similar structures and development on the lands between nations threaten biodiversity around the globe.
Wildfires can reduce biodiversity—can biodiversity be used to reduce wildfires?
A biodiversity experiment in Australia showed animal species can help reduce flammable leaf litter by 24 percent.
Citigroup announces ban on financing Arctic drilling
Citigroup now joins Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo, along with several global banks to end funding oil and gas exploration in the Arctic.
5 ways environmental damage drives human diseases like COVID-19
Wildlife trade, deforestation, industrial farming and other factors threaten both animals and human health.
The coronavirus has created an opening for collective action to save...
Our collective response to the COVID-19 pandemic has proven that collective action can enable swift and inspiring changes to how we operate as a society.
COVID-19 ‘liberate’ groups are the same ones pushing climate denial
The well-funded machinery that sowed doubt about climate is now sowing seeds of doubt over the economic and public health response to COVID-19.
10 things we’ve learned a decade after the Deepwater Horizon disaster
Are we any closer to preventing a similar—or worse—catastrophe?
Massive drop in air pollution amid coronavirus makes Himalayan Mountain Range...
"The nationwide Janta Curfew on March 22, 2020 and lock down since March 24, 2020, have resulted in significant improvement in air quality in the country, as revealed by data analysis and comparison of data for time before enforcement of restrictions."
Factory farms create the perfect conditions to spread viral infections like...
An alarming 75 percent of new or emerging diseases start in animals.