Environment
Here's What America Looked Like Before the EPA
When it was created, the new Agency sent photographers around the country to capture an America in environmental decline.
Climate Activists Say Police Raided Their Campsite Without Identifying Themselves
Human rights lawyers say new state laws are enabling chronic police overreach.
Suspect Leads Police to Bodies in Hunt for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Brazilian police searching for the missing British journalist and indigenous affairs official in a remote part of the Amazon said they had recovered two bodies.
Biden’s Bold Plan on Plastics Bans Them From National Parks... in 10 Years
If the order ever takes effect at all.
What Does It Mean to Help Build a ‘Water-Positive Future’— and Why Does It Matter?
Basically, it comes down to putting more water back into a system than you take out of it.
New York Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning New Fossil Fuel Bitcoin Mines
The bill, if signed into law, would ban new Bitcoin mines that use fossil fuels for two years while the state assesses the environmental impacts.
‘Extremely Troubling’: Internal Docs Show Turmoil in Canadian Gov’t Following Fisheries Harassment Investigations
Freedom of Information documents reveal that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has created a suite of new policies and is spending millions on modernization in wake of whistleblowers speaking up.
Scientists Make Paper Durable Like Plastic, Without the Pollution
The silica-resin coating is easily applied to paper and makes it waterproof, without creating plastic pollution, and it's anti-bacterial to boot.
Both Major Parties Are Refusing to Address Climate Change and We’ll All Die Early Because of It
Regardless of who wins at the election, fossil fuels will continue to burn.
Wind Power Surpasses Coal, Nuclear as Power Generation Source in US
For an entire day, wind power became the second-largest source of electricity in the country for the first time in recorded history.
PG&E Avoids Criminal Charges for 2 Massive Wildfires by Paying $55 Million
California’s PG&E utility company helped spark the Kincade Fire and the Dixie Fire, which caused immeasurable environmental damage. It paid a settlement to avoid criminal charges.
Indigenous Australians Have Derailed a Controversial Gas Project by Suing the South Korean Government
Up to $700 million now hangs in the balance.