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