Tag: pollution

There is a vast divide between the misleading, popular notion of recycling as a "solution" to the American over consumption problem and the darker reality of recycling as a failing business model.

“Providing corporate giveaways during a time of widespread suffering to fossil-fuel companies is unconscionable.”

“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.”

We depend on biodiversity in the natural world for the water we drink, the food we eat and the clean air we breathe.

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.

“We have a responsibility to take bold action in addressing climate challenges.”

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.

Poor air quality from burning fossil fuels such as coal and diesel was responsible for more than 8 million deaths in 2018.

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.

“Our state regulators—and our industry—has a long way to go to clean up our act.”