Celebrate Earth Day by Skipping the “Green Consumerism” Fads Excerpt from this essay from Sierra Club: I’ve spent years encouraging people to ditch single-use plastic. Probably the mos...
Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover Excerpt from this story from DeSmog Blog: With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has ...
Hatchings of California condor chicks mark milestone for endangered species: Watch video
Decades after a US butterfly species vanished, a close relative is released to fill gap Excerpt from this story from the Associated Press (AP): More than 80 years ago, a beautiful butterfly ...
Sounds Right Recognizes Nature as Musician, With Royalties Going to Environmental Causes - EcoWatch Excerpt from this story from EcoWatch: If you’ve ever listened to “Riders on the Storm...
Western States Could Make Billions Selling Renewable Energy, But They’ll Need a Lot More Regional Transmission Lines - Inside Climate News Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News: ...
Researchers at Michigan Tech Want to Create a High-Tech Wood Product Called Cross-Laminated Timber From the State’s Hardwood Trees - Inside Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News: ...
Reduced Snow Cover and Shifting Vegetation Are Disrupting Alpine Ecosystems, Study Finds - Inside Climate News Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News: Reduced snow cover and vegeta...
The Missing $1 Trillion Excerpt from this story from the New York Times: For the past two years, world leaders, economists and activists have called for sweeping overhauls to the World Bank ...
Carbon Dioxide Levels Have Passed a New Milestone Excerpt from this story from the New York Times: Carbon dioxide acts like Earth’s thermostat: The more of it in the air, the more the plan...
Mojave desert tortoise officially joins California’s endangered list Excerpt from this story from the LA Times: The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave d...
EARTH’S RECORD HOT STREAK MIGHT BE A SIGN OF A NEW CLIMATE ERA. (WASHINGTON POST) The historic heat wave that besieged Mali and other parts of West Africa this month — which scientists say...
WYOMING’S WOLF-ELIMINATION POLICY LEADS TO TORTURE AND DARKNESS. (WASHINGTON POST) There aren’t many additional facts I learn when I read the next article and then next one and then the ne...
HAS THE U.S. REALLY CONSERVED A THIRD OF ITS WATERS? HERE’S THE MATH. (WASHINGTON POST) Almost everyone loves the ocean. But not everyone agrees on what it means to protect it. The Unit...
R.F.K. Jr.’s Environmental Colleagues Urge Him to Drop Presidential Bid Excerpt from this New York Times story: As an independent candidate for the White House, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., clai...
Drought Pushes Millions Into ‘Acute Hunger’ in Southern Africa Excerpt from this story from the New York Times: An estimated 20 million people in southern Africa are facing what the Uni...
Scotland Made Big Climate Pledges. Now They’re ‘Out of Reach.’ Excerpt from this story from the New York Times: Climate promises are hard to keep. Scotland is the latest, perhaps most ...
Chinese Export Surge Clouds U.S. Hopes of a Domestic Solar Boom Excerpt from this New York Times story: Less than a year ago, CubicPV, which manufactures components for solar panels, announc...
E.P.A. Will Make Polluters Pay to Clean Up Two ‘Forever Chemicals’ Excerpt from this New York Times story: The Biden administration is designating two “forever chemicals,” man-made c...
Opinion | Xi Thinks China Can Slow Climate Change. What if He’s Right? Excerpt from this Op-Ed from the New York Times: At first glance, Xi Jinping seems to have lost the plot. China’s...