(Beyond Pesticides) A plan announced earlier this month by Agriculture Secretary, Sonny Perdue, to relocate one of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) top research office — the Economic Research Service — into the Office of ...
The Federal Court of Appeals overturned the approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMP) expansion on Thursday, discrediting the existing review given by the National Energy Board (NEB) and siding with the First Nations groups ...
Other than being a leading cause of death worldwide, air pollution is now also a leading cause of severe brain damage, according to a new study which has linked air pollution to decreasing levels of ...
Construction of the Mountain View Pipeline (MVP), a proposed 330-mile project stretching through the Appalachian mountains, was halted this month after the permits allowing the development to cross through the Jefferson National Forest were called ...
While elephants may be famous for their dislike of mice, it’s their intense dislike of bees that may save them. A new study attempted to replicate bee pheromones in hopes of creating a “bee repellant” ...
(Beyond Pesticides) A federal judge in Brazil has ordered the suspension of the most widely used pesticide in the world, glyphosate. Under the ruling, new products may not be registered in the country until the ...
After a six-year environmental review process and against the wishes of many local native tribes and residents, the federal government gave the go-ahead on the development of a new gold mine in Alaska, in what ...
A new report from United Nations Environment details how pharmaceutical drugs enter the environment and our public water supplies through waste treatment centers. Not only are humans at risk of contamination from pharmaceutical chemicals seeping ...
(Beyond Pesticides) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must ban a widely used organophosphate pesticide linked to brain damage in children, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. The appellate court ordered EPA to finalize its ...
The Trump administration has approved the use of toxic pesticides and genetically modified organisms (GMO) on national wildlife refuges. This is a reversal of an earlier ban placed on neonicotinoid pesticides and genetically engineered crops ...
The jury deliberation of the Johnson vs. Monsanto case began this week after closing arguments debating the tie between Roundup herbicide and Non-Hodgkins lymphoma were voiced Tuesday. The verdict of this high-profile case in the ...
Humanity’s overconsumption of earth’s resources brings up fears that future generation’s will suffer from a lack of natural resources. To help raise awareness of human consumption environmentalists began holding an annual event called Earth Overshoot ...
Laboratory data denying a causal connection between the herbicide Roundup and one San Francisco man’s cancer has been the focus of dispute in the Monsanto lawsuit that has now crossed into its third week. San ...
President Donald Trump has finally nominated someone to the position of science advisor and the nominee, Kelvin Droegemeier, represents a change from previous environmental and science picks. Droegemeier is a meteorologist and believes in climate ...
California says weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer, but California also sprays it into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta which is home to much of the water supply for central and southern California. California government officially put ...
The fight against global warming and climate change has never been deadlier according to a new report by Global Witness found activists defending the environment are being murdered in record numbers. At least 207 environmental ...
Radioactive uranium has reportedly leaked into groundwater at the Westinghouse Electric nuclear fuel plant in Richmond County, South Carolina. Local citizens are concerned their drinking water and health may be affected by the leak, despite ...
(BeyondPesticides) A legal complaint filed by a Kansas farmer claims industry giant, Monsanto, knew its new dicamba-formulated product would harm other crops, but marketed and sold it anyway, damaging thousands of acres of crops. The lawsuit, filed by ...
The border area between the U.S. and Mexico is home to some of North America’s greatest biodiversity and rich terrain which includes forests, grasslands and salt marshes. The land is home to more than 1,500 ...
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of armored dinosaur named Akainacephalus johnsoni. The fossils of the extinct animal show it belonged to the genus ankylosaurid dinosaur which roamed the plains of Asia 125 to 100 ...
The State of North Dakota has been taken to court for granting an air permit for the construction of an oil refinery near the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The air permit was issued by the ...
An attempt by members of the Congressional Western Caucus to introduce new bills to “modernize” the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is instead seen as a move to gut the act by conservationists. Sponsors of the ...
Jane Goodall joined local and international conservationists this week to intervene with the first grizzly hunting season in Wyoming in more than 40 years. Amidst heated debate this spring, the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission ...
(Beyond Pesticides) Ecologically-based farming systems contain far fewer pests and generate much higher profits than their conventional, chemical-based counterparts according to research published in the journal PeerJ earlier this year by scientists at South Dakota State University ...
A body of evidence from over 100 individual experiments included in 23 combined studies reveals that pesticides are dumbing down bees. A new study analyzed years of bee evidence and found 23 studies related to ...
A new Mexican firm, Applied Biotech, has developed a natural pesticide from molecules that make chili peppers hot. Capsaicinoids are the molecules that give chili peppers their heat, and the Mexican startup has harvested this chemical ...
A family of chemicals — known as PFAS and responsible for marvels like Teflon and critical to the safety of American military bases — has now emerged as a far greater menace than previously disclosed. ...
The United States Wildlife Services reported killing 1,320,075 non-invasive animals and freeing/dispersing 11,673,485 non-invasive animals in 2017 according to its Program Data Report G-2017 and as reported on TreeHugger. The agency also reported killing 987,047 invasive ...
“It doesn’t matter if they’re Democrat or Republican, it matters if they care about the agency’s mission and they do everything they can to accomplish the mission,” John O’Grady, Save the U.S. EPA. As each ...
Starbucks will globally phase out the use of plastic drinking straws by the end of next year, the corporation announced on July 9. The common green single-use straws will no longer be offered at Starbucks ...
A new factory is being built in Amsterdam that will use previously unrecyclable plastic and convert it to fuel to power diesel cargo ships. Bin2Barrel, a Dutch waste management company set up in 2012 is ...
Monsanto is facing the first ever lawsuit over its flagship product and weedkiller Roundup on Monday. Thousands of pages of discovery documents related to the case were analyzed by researchers who found that Monsanto has been ...
A joint report conducted by IowaWatch and with Science in the Media, a University of Northern Iowa project, reveals that 444,559 students and teachers are at risk of pesticide exposure and poisoning in Iowa. Local ...
On Thursday President Donald Trump made the announcement via Twitter that he had accepted the resignation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s chief Scott Pruitt. Trump praised Pruitt for his service and also announced that E.P.A. deputy ...
“Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No… it’s a drone dressed up as Superman, exposing how vulnerable French nuclear power plants are.” (Common Dreams, by Jessica Corbett) Greenpeace France on Tuesday crashed a drone dressed ...
Monsanto is in hot water as it’s facing the first of thousands of lawsuits targetting the weed-killer, Roundup. A California man suffering from terminal cancer claims the herbicide’s active ingredient, glyphosate, is responsible for his ...
EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What can I do to help bees back from massive die-offs in recent years? – Bill Gorman, Albuquerque, NM Major declines in ...
The European Union (EU) suspended the implementation of a policy that would have banned the use of crude palm oil as a basic material for biofuel in 2020 and instead set a target of 2030 ...
INTERPOL has made significant progress in combating global wildlife crime in an international operation known as Operation Thunderstorm. In a massive all-out war against timber and wildlife poaching, the INTERPOL Wildlife Crime Working Group coordinated ...
New York and Connecticut won a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency and its director, Scott Pruitt, on violations of federal requirements that have led to smog pollution in the two states. The joint lawsuit ...
A draft of a report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I.P.C.C.) says the world is on course to exceed the global warming limits set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The Paris ...
McDonald’s is going a little greener; it has ditched plastic straws throughout its restaurants in the U.K. and Ireland. No longer will plastic straws be used in any of the 1,361 branches of McDonald’s across ...
A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that while some gaps are widening between urban, suburban and rural dwellers in America, some similarities exist across demographics. The study analyzes what unites and divides Americans living ...
A complete dinosaur fossil of an unknown type of dinosaur, possibly a new species, sold for over $2.3 million at a Paris auction. The skeleton of the mysterious dinosaur was auctioned last Monday on a ...
Dear EarthTalk: Can fertility techniques pioneered for humans or other animals be used to try to bring back endangered wildlife species? – James E., Richmond, VA (EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental ...
Just days after Kinder Morgan officials confirmed the accidental leak of 100 liters of crude oil from a flow meter at the Darfield facility of the Trans Mountain pipeline, Kinder Morgan announced they struck a ...
EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: It’s finally time for me to retire my trusty old Nalgene and upgrade my water bottle. Are any brands or models particularly greener ...
Dear EarthTalk: What is “light pollution?” Is it really a factor in breast cancer? —Gudrun Smythe, Madison, Wisconsin (EARTHTALK, by Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer) The glow of city lights blotting out stars in the night sky ...
(Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, by Mary Triny Zea) The natives of Cartí Sugdup island, in the archipelago of Guna Yala — known worldwide as San Blas — on the northeast end of the province of ...