‘We’re Taking Action Into Our Own Hands’ — A Community Stands Against a Landfill
Long Island residents and their allies seek environmental justice after decades of pollution. As you drive down East Woodside Avenue in Brookhaven, New York, a…
Long Island residents and their allies seek environmental justice after decades of pollution. As you drive down East Woodside Avenue in Brookhaven, New York, a…
Hundreds of tons of carcinogenic agrochemicals, including DDT, were abandoned by the Brazilian government at a factory near an orphanage on the outskirts or Rio…
The petrochemical industry has found a new market for fossil fuels: Plastics. With dozens of new plastics manufacturing and recycling facilities in the works, the…
There seems to be a working assumption that if Australia adopts tougher environmental policies, our economic growth will be undermined. But new research finds the…
Most of the world’s countries support these global agreements on conservation and pollution, but the United States is noticeably absent. In one of his first…
Deforestation is amplifying climate change effects in the Brazilian Cerrado savanna biome, making it much hotter and drier. Researchers observed monthly increases of 2.24°C (4.03°F)…
Climate change, avers Rex Tillerson, ex-CEO of ExxonMobil and erstwhile US Secretary of State, “is an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.” This brief…
Spanline Dixon, a retired teacher’s aide, is used to unpleasant smells. Her home in Brunswick, Ga. is near a waste and recycling facility, a water…
On a tuesday afternoon in late March 2020, Zezico Rodrigues Guajajara was killed by gunmen as he was driving a motorbike near his home village on…
New and emerging technologies could pave the way to net-zero carbon emissions agriculture in the next two decades, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of…
The shift to electric cars is crucial for cutting transport emissions. But the skyrocketing demand for e-cars has triggered growing concerns about their batteries’ environmental…
Global warming is a severe problem affecting the environment worldwide, primarily due to the excessive consumption of fossil fuels for transportation, which accounts for a fifth…
This article is part of the Climate Breakthroughs: The Road to COP26 and Beyond For hard-to-abate sectors like transport, energy and aviation, tropical forests are…