Hunger Strikers Seeking Environmental Justice Win Air-Pollution Delay
A hunger strike in Chicago and concerns raised by city and state politicians have slowed the planned move of a metal scrapper to a working-class, predominantly Latino community
A hunger strike in Chicago and concerns raised by city and state politicians have slowed the planned move of a metal scrapper to a working-class, predominantly Latino community
New rollbacks could make controlling fugitive emissions from oil and gas infrastructure even harder
A drastic increase in use of masks and gloves, plus a decline in recycling programs, is threatening the health of the seas
The artificial night sky brightness could harm creatures that dwell in the ocean depths
The finding comes as the Trump administration has been rolling back clean air regulations
These charts show that while progress has been made in some areas, humanity still has a major impact on the planet
U.S. federal authorities have recently been reluctant to step in to mediate cross-border air quality issues among states
Tiny plastic particles have turned up in samples of Arctic snow, pointing to their ubiquity in the environment
Four times as many plastic particles turned up in the deep waters of a “clean” patch of ocean than on the surface in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
New practices, and new chemistries, are needed to end the scourge
A genetically engineered strain of rice maintains high yields with less fertilizer
Wastewater contains billions of lenses, which eventually make their way into the environment
Trillions of tiny particles generated by our plastic-reliant society are polluting environments worldwide
In a contaminated Seattle river, what the mammals leave behind may be a good gauge of cleanup efforts
Soil microbes convert fertilizer to nitrogen oxides, emitting about as much of the gases as on-road vehicles in the state
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