Malaysian investigators work to clean up from a chemical waste dump and find the responsible parties. Fumes from chemical waste dumped in a river in the southern Malaysian state of Johor forced the closure of ...
The Fukushima cleanup is already running out of space to store treated water. And should another big quake strike, experts say tanks could crack, unleashing tainted liquid and washing highly radioactive debris into the ocean. ...
“Our report proves that coal plants are poisoning groundwater nearly everywhere they operate.” (By Valerie Volcovici, Reuters) – More than 90 percent of U.S. coal-fired power plants that are required to monitor groundwater near their ...
“We’re here to warn him and all senators: if you refuse to back the Green New Deal, young people will remember next time you ask for our votes.” (By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Hundreds of ...
Many mining operations in the region are operating without valid permits, and as a result, have been the defendants in numerous lawsuits. The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, showed the world what horrible tragedies can ...
Magnetic north is on the move, wandering toward Siberia. If you check your compass now, it might give a faulty reading, rendering navigation less precise. A compass needle always points to the direction of the ...
A handful of studies offer compelling evidence that the stratospheric polar vortex is changing. (By Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University The Conversation) A record-breaking cold wave is sending literal shivers down the spines of millions of Americans. Temperatures across ...
The owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline just won a controversial court approval to construct another pipeline through Louisiana protected wetlands. An appeals court in Louisiana ruled that the state’s Department of Natural Resources was correct ...
Oil companies in Vaca Muerta, one of the largest reserves of oil and gas in the world, are accused of illegally dumping industrial oil and toxic waste in open waste ponds, as revealed in a ...
(MapLight) A controversial family credited with helping Donald Trump win the White House spent $4.4 million last year to finance climate change deniers, according to its foundation’s latest tax return. The Mercer Family Foundation, led by ...
The Paris climate goals are closer to a reality now that countries have agreed upon a ‘rulebook’ on how to get there. Climate delegates in Poland finally reached an agreement on several steps to make ...
“Cyanide traps are indiscriminate killers that just can’t be used safely. We’ll keep fighting for a permanent nationwide ban, which is the only way to protect people, pets and imperiled wildlife from the EPA’s poison,” ...
While in the past fluctuations in Monarch populations could be explained by factors such as a cold winter, the evidence is now clear that there are human factors putting downward pressure on monarch populations. (Beyond ...
If found guilty, top executives in two big oil companies could go to jail and the companies risk enormous penalties, including relinquishing an oil-rich region. In what is now one of the biggest corporate corruption ...
As technology becomes increasingly central to our lives, e-waste, or electronic waste, is piling up in our landfills and polluting our environment. As environmentalists fight to combat climate change, electronic waste is silently piling up ...
Scientists estimate that four to 12 million metric tons of plastic trash enter the oceans each year. In an executive show of support for ocean conservation, President Trump signed the Save our Seas Act last ...
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.15″] Both Sides articles give you the opposing viewpoints on the most important issues of today. This week, Florida was devastated by hurricane Michael. The category 4 storm brought winds over 155 miles ...
“It’s great that the defendants were found not guilty,” said Dr. James Hansen, “but we missed an opportunity to inform the public about the injustice of climate change.” (Common Dreams) In a victory for three ...
Environmental activists have reason to celebrate – the Escazú Agreement is the first ever multi-national commitment to protecting environmental defenders. Heads of state in 14 Latin American countries have signed the first international treaty pledging specific ...
Pesticide activists are outraged as two new reports detail how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) abuses emergency exemptions of pesticides – a provision in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) – to ...
An international arbitration court made the latest ruling in favor of Chevron in the never-ending legal case between Chevron and Ecuadorian residents who claim their land and water was contaminated by the company over a period ...
I have been working to clean up the chemicals industry from the inside the better part of 30 years. As a biologist, grandfather and former teacher, I am deeply concerned with keeping people clean and ...
The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-partisan environmental and public advocacy organization, published a scathing review of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s environmental legacy as a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...
(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 ...
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 ...
With a portable freshwater harvester in development, up to 10 gallons of water could be harvested from the air every hour. The end of freshwater shortage? The innovation was presented by scientists in a meeting ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wildfires devastated multiple seaside suburbs of Athens on Monday, causing at least 81 casualties and leaving many others missing or hospitalized. After casting a heavy smoke over the Greek capital, the fires spread quickly through ...
When Starbucks announced they would stop offering straws in all 28,000 locations by 2020 they probably expected a lot of praise. But they also announced that this would mean adopting a lid design that includes ...
How about some pesticides with your scoop of Phish Food or Cherry Garcia? According to a new lawsuit, that’s what you’re getting when you order ice cream from beloved American ice cream company, Ben and Jerry’s. ...
England’s Green party published a new report that showed that for the first time, England is about to burn more waste than it recycles. English authorities stated that energy from waste incineration tripled from 2010 t0 ...
(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 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. ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mauritius is not only a luxurious holiday destination but also a place with a rich and diverse flora and fauna unique only to the island. This includes the dodo, an extinct flightless bird, which was ...
There are several species of frogs in the world all ranging in size and characteristics, but the largest of them all in size are the “goliath frogs”, which – wait for it, are larger than ...
The U.S. military is building its 33rd military base on the small Japanese island, Okinawa, but locals are waging a multi-year, non-violent protest to stop construction and preserve Oura Bay and its spectacular coral reef ...
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 ...
When you look at their faces, you may be tempted to think that these are just your ordinary female game rangers, especially with their serene faces and smiles. But do not mistake their calm disposition ...