Tag: pollution
Atmospheric methane levels surge in 2020 to highest level in millions...
“If countries make plans now to put society on a path of sustained and dramatic cuts to emissions from today, we can avoid ever-rising emissions and the dangerously accelerating impacts of climate change.”
Biodiversity: How our health and happiness depend on a thriving planet
We depend on biodiversity in the natural world for the water we drink, the food we eat and the clean air we breathe.
New research shows just how many fish are eating plastic
A new study reveals that certain kinds of fish are more likely to have ingested plastic—including hundreds of species people depend on for food.
FedEx to become 100 percent electric by 2040
“We have a responsibility to take bold action in addressing climate challenges.”
One third of freshwater fish face extinction, new report warns
A new report from a coalition of 16 conservation groups warns that almost a third of freshwater fish species face extinction because of human activity.
Fossil fuel air pollution linked to 1 in 5 deaths globally,...
Poor air quality from burning fossil fuels such as coal and diesel was responsible for more than 8 million deaths in 2018.
Human noise pollution is harming ocean creatures
Noise from vessels, sonar, seismic surveys and construction can damage marine animals' hearing, change their behaviors and, in some cases, threaten their ability to survive.
Evidence shows oil industry flaring in Texas being done without permits
“Our state regulators—and our industry—has a long way to go to clean up our act.”
Lawsuit challenges permits for some of Texas’ largest polluters, alleges state...
“Until we get control of the emissions in those disproportionate areas or overburden areas. I think all permitting should be stopped until we get a handle on it.”
9-year-old girl’s asthma death officially linked to air pollution in unprecedented...
"Toxic air pollution is a public health crisis, especially for our children, and the inquest underlined yet again the importance of pushing ahead with bold policies such as expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone to inner London."
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.