At one end of Trump's revived Keystone XL pipeline, there's a scene you must...
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to revive and expedite two multi-billion-dollar underground pipelines that would snake oil through US states to centers of the petroleum...
View ArticleIndia's capital just banned all forms of disposable plastic
India’s capital city, Delhi, has introduced a ban on disposable plastic.Cutlery, bags, cups and other forms of single-use plastic were prohibited by the National Green Tribunal (NGT).There is...
View ArticleThe Trump administration has told the EPA to remove its climate change data...
The Trump administration has told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take down its website with educational resources and links to climate change data, according to a Reuters report.The EPA,...
View ArticleProtesters say a leak in the Dakota Access pipeline, which Trump just...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive orders to advance construction of the Dakota Access pipeline and the Keystone XL pipeline.Activists had fought against both pipelines — the protest at...
View ArticleHere's everything President Trump has said publicly about climate change
Under President Trump, the US Environmental Protection Agency has frozen all new grants and contracts and barred its employees from talking about it with the press or public, according to reports from...
View ArticleThe Trump administration plans to approve the EPA's scientific findings...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientific findings by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency staff will likely face a case-by-case review by the Trump administration before being released, a spokesman for...
View ArticleTrump might be backing down from plan to scrub climate data from the EPA's...
On Tuesday night, Reuters broke the news that the Trump administration had instructed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to scrub its climate data (or at least its links to its climate data)...
View ArticleThe EPA just delayed 30 environmental regulations created under Obama —...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published paperwork Wednesday to delay 30 environmental regulations created under Obama until March 21.All 30 regulations were written into the Federal...
View Article@RogueNASA: America's scientists are reportedly launching unofficial Twitter...
Employees from more than a dozen US government agencies, according to Reuters, have established a network of unofficial "rogue" Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President...
View ArticleThis Ethiopian sulfur spring is one of the hottest and most inhospitable...
Ethiopia is home to some of the world's most beautiful scenery, including some striking sulfur — yes, sulfur — springs.Earlier this month, award-winning photographer Carl Court visited one of these...
View ArticleBy 2050, the oceans could have more plastic than fish
Already, the ocean is filled with about 165 million tons of plastic.That's 25 times heavier than the Great Pyramid of Giza.By 2050, plastic in the oceans will outweigh fish, predicts a report from the...
View ArticleTrump's latest executive order could impose an impossible choice on the EPA
President Donald Trump's latest executive order will force government agencies to kill two regulations for every one they create — literally.The order, as listed on whitehouse.gov, reads: "Unless...
View ArticleEven Trump's EPA transition head doesn't know what changes are coming to the...
Even the head of the EPA's transition doesn't appear to know the Trump administration's plan for the EPA's future, according to an alleged email leaked Monday.In the leaked email, which was published...
View ArticleThe worst forest fires in Chile's history have now destroyed more than a...
More than a million acres of land have been ravaged by dozens of forest fires in the central-south regions of Chile.Fires started mid-January 2017 and have been described as some of the worst the...
View Article4 foods Americans will be eating in 30 years
When it comes to the amount of meat consumed per capita, the U.S. comes in 2nd place. This kind of diet is not only a concern for people's health but also the environment. To alleviate the problem,...
View ArticleThese 3-billion-year-old crystals deep inside an underwater volcano could be...
When the Earth was new, there was one continent called Pangaea. About 175 million years ago this supercontinent started to break apart, and over millions of years the continents we know today were...
View ArticleOslo is giving residents $1,200 to buy electric bikes
While Finland is busy giving thousands of people a free $600 a month in a social experiment, the government of Oslo, Norway has announced it will give out twice that amount — to help the environment.On...
View ArticleThe Trump administration could end up defending an Obama-era EPA rule in court
The most famous lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) right now are probably those 14 filed by Scott Pruitt, the anti-regulation Oklahoma Attorney General that Trump picked to lead...
View ArticleThe GOP is using an obscure law to quietly repeal five major Obama-era...
In government, there are ways to make a splash and ways to quietly get things done.President Trump made a splash Monday with an executive order requiring that for every new regulation in the Federal...
View ArticleThe most endangered marine mammal on the planet is also the smallest of its...
The world's smallest porpoise is edging closer and closer to extinction.There are just 30 vaquita porpoises left in the world. Vaquitas are known as the "pandas of the sea" because of their distinctive...
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