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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to announce on Thursday that it intends to sharply curtail the regulation of methane emissions, a major contributor to climate change, according to an industry official with knowledge MORE
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A US city is facing a public health crisis, after years of denying that it had a problem with lead in its drinking water supply. In 2016, MORE
Facing an avalanche of criticism over the fires raging across the Amazon, President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil pledged that his government would take a “zero tolerance” approach to environmental crimes MORE
A new invasive species of tumbleweed that can grow up to six feet in height is taking over parts of California—and scientists are warning it could spread even further as climate change makes its growing MORE
The G7’s pledge of $20m (£16m) to douse the fires in the Amazon has been dismissed as “chump change” by environmental campaigners, as concerns grow about political cooperation on deforestation and other climate issues. The MORE
French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed to reporters that Trump did not attend today’s G-7 Summit’s session on climate, biodiversity, and oceans. MORE
Axios reported that on numerous occasions, Trump has suggested nuking hurricanes before they make landfall. In one briefing, the president said, “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” according to one MORE
By Elisha Fieldstadt A family visiting Yellowstone National Park had a scary moment when a herd of bison stampeded past their car, with one crashing into the vehicle as the stunned occupants were inside. Yellowstone has MORE
David Koch, one of the two infamous billionaire Koch brothers, died Friday at the age of 79. The Wall Street Journal is quick to point out that, in addition funding a vast conservative political network, MORE
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This year alone, Brazil has suffered “72,843 fires with more than half in the Amazon region,’the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said. That’s more than an 80% increase compared with the same period last MORE
Following Governor Inslee’s exit from the crowded, 2020 Democratic Party’s field of presidential candidates, Climate Change activists have, once again, approached the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to hold a debate focused solely on the issue. MORE
Climber Nirmal Purja’s viral photograph of the traffic jam at the top of Everest this past May showed just how bad the situation had gotten. The shot was taken during the final stretch to summit the tallest mountain in the world. MORE
There have been two confirmed cases of neurological damage in a panther and bobcat in Florida as of this month, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). The agency is investigating the MORE
Marium, an orphaned baby dugong who became a beloved conservation symbol after photographs of her nuzzling human caretakers went viral earlier this year, has died. MORE
Mourners have gathered in Iceland to commemorate the loss of Okjokull, which has died at the age of about 700. The glacier was officially declared dead in 2014 when it was no longer thick enough MORE
Much of the planet sweltered in unprecedented heat in July, as temperatures soared to new heights in the hottest month ever recorded. The record warmth also shrank Arctic and Antarctic sea ice to historic lows. MORE
BBC News reported today that plastic is showing up in more areas of the environment than ever expected: now it’s been found in Arctic air. A group of German and Swiss scientists studying environmental contamination MORE
From our friends at DemocraticUnderground comes this apt comparison between sane energy/infrastructure policy and bull-goose looney. No extra credit for figuring out which is which. MORE
A coalition of 29 states and cities on Tuesday sued to block the Trump administration from easing restrictions on coal-burning power plants. The move could ultimately limit how much leverage MORE
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Almost 400 people more died in the Netherlands during Europe’s recent record-breaking heatwave than in a regular summer week, Dutch national statistics agency CBS said on Friday. In total, 2964 people died MORE
Instead of denying threats to the planet, far-right propagandists seize on them as another means of sowing racial panic. On Saturday, a gunman killed 21 people at a Walmart in the border city of El MORE
Fighting to protect your land is a risky task. A new study shows that every year, more people are killed defending their environment than those killed while deployed to war zones from the United Kingdom MORE
The heatwave that sweltered several European countries last month has now hit Greenland. In just one day, (Wednesday) the sweltering heat accelerated ice sheets to melt, which resulted in the loss of 11 billion tons of ice water to the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. MORE