Tag: environment

While the world’s oceans, nonhuman animals, and plants play starring roles in sustaining our ecosystem, why are we so bent on sabotaging it?

The U.S. economy depends on consumers consuming and the earth depends on us not consuming.

With a lack of regulations addressing toxic “forever chemicals,” students and professors at a Vermont college have taken their research skills into communities to spur action.

Science has shown that coating seeds with pesticides is not only ineffective, but can cause real harm to pollinators, workers, and farmers."

“We cannot trust the Tories with Scotland’s renewables sector and to get the best out of it for the people of Scotland."

Forget their policies for a moment, and consider how two politicians’ lives foreshadow our ecological future.

Brazil had managed to reduce Amazon deforestation since the 2004 total of 27,772 square kilometers. This shows that it is possible, but it depends on political will and adequate management.

Our broken and inhumane food system is a huge source of emissions, so why isn’t it a major part of the climate solution?

While the Trump administration tried to open 9.2 million acres of the forest to logging and roadbuilding, the USDA's proposal will effectively reinstate the protections for Tongass National Forest.

There is a growing awareness that the extreme weather events of recent years are caused by the climate crisis, with an all-time high of 70 percent of people believing that global warming is impacting U.S. weather right now.