"Fossil Fuels Fund Academia. Now What?"
"Despite decades of donations and research footed by the industry, we’re just now beginning to understand how much fossil fuel money has shaped academia."Climate ChangeEnergy & FuelEnvironmental...
View Article"Ferocious Mother 128 ‘Grazer’ Wins Back-To-Back Fat Bear Week Titles"
"128 “Grazer” made Fat Bear Week history Tuesday night by becoming the first competitor to win the tournament while caring for a cub. Her victory over 32 “Chunk” also felt deeply personal for legions...
View Article"Here’s What a Shocking New Number on Wildlife Declines Really Means"
"Wildlife populations around the world continue dropping precipitously, according to an important but limited and often misinterpreted assessment that’s issued every two...
View Article"An Oil Giant Railroads Its SCOTUS Connection To Gut Environmental Law"
"A fossil fuel giant with deep ties to Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, along with other powerful pro-business groups, are explicitly pressuring Gorsuch and his fellow justices to rule in favor of...
View ArticleIs Climate Data at Risk From Natural Disasters?
When Hurricane Helene ravaged a swath of the Southeast in September, leaving at least 230 people dead, it also temporarily took out a critical repository of climate data in Asheville, North Carolina....
View Article"Cop16: Colombia Prepares To Host ‘Decisive’ Summit On Biodiversity"
"World leaders, environmental activists and prominent researchers have begun to arrive in Cali, Colombia, for a biodiversity summit that experts say will be decisive for the fate of the world’s rapidly...
View ArticleCanadian Regulator Colluded With A Pesticide Maker To Silence Researcher
"The federal pesticide regulator collaborated with an agrochemical giant to undermine research by a prominent Canadian scientist to stave off an impending ban of a class of pesticides harmful to human...
View Article"Peak Coal Predicted This Year Despite Promises To Quit"
"Coal has powered the world's factories, heated homes and fuelled economies for more than a century - and usage driven by the power sector continues to rise despite global promises to kick the habit...
View ArticleNew-Look Landslide Risk Database Captures Potential Human Costs
Susceptibility to landslides is more on the minds of environmental reporters, especially in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which caused hundreds of them. To get a better read on local landslide risk for...
View ArticleNew Reports Ahead of COP29 Show World Spinning Its Wheels on Climate Action
"A trio of reports released ahead of next month’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan all show that the existing national policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the landmark 2015 Paris...
View Article"12 Books To Read About Climate Action Ahead Of The Election"
"For this October, the month before the presidential election, Yale Climate Connections has identified enough timely titles to fill two bookshelves: one on climate action, the other on electoral...
View ArticlePrize Winner Spurs Policy Change on Illinois PFAS Contamination
When Illinois downplayed the results of long-delayed PFAS testing in the state’s public water supply, Chicago Tribune reporter Michael Hawthorne revisited a story he had first covered two decades...
View Article"Federal Court Takes Aim At White House’s Environment Authority"
"A federal court in D.C. has issued a ruling that curtails the White House’s ability to set government-wide rules pertaining to how environmental reviews can be conducted."Environmental...
View Article"Four Things To Know About Trump’s Interior Secretary Pick"
"North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is expected to implement President-elect Donald Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” ethos on public lands and waters if confirmed to helm the massive Interior Department. But...
View ArticleWhistleblower Sounds Alarm At Destruction Of Tribal Sites In N. Carolina
"Spear points, hammer stones and picks lost to history under layers of leaves, roots and rocks — it was the evidence Scott Ashcraft was looking for."Environmental JusticeEnvironmental...
View ArticleGiraffes Are Up Next On The Endangered Species List: US Wildlife Officials
"Giraffe populations are declining at such an alarming rate — from habitat loss, poaching, urbanization and climate change-fueled drought — that US wildlife officials announced a proposal on Wednesday...
View ArticleWill Trump ‘Disappear’ Environment, Climate Data?
Might the incoming Trump administration attempt to blot out any data that undermines his environmental policies, especially around global warming? Many recall, for instance, the 2017 disappearing of...
View ArticleThe Resilient Sea Turtle, Beset by Threats
Sea turtles are in decline across the globe, victims of coastal development, algal blooms and, perhaps cruelest of all, plastic pollution. Marine biologist Christine Figgener, in a new book part memoir...
View ArticleEPA Science Integrity Threatened by House Republicans
The closest thing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has to a press policy is actually its scientific integrity policy. But as WatchDog Opinion writer Joseph Davis writes in the latest EJ...
View Article"Mammoth: It’s What Was for Dinner"
"For millions of years, North America was home to a zoo of giants: mammoths and mastodons, camels and dire wolves, sloths the size of elephants and beavers as big as bears. And then, at the end of the...
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