by Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica
Photo: Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica
In a first, federal environment officials recently scientifically linked underground water pollution with hydraulic fracturing, concluding that contaminants found in central Wyoming were likely caused...
Dec
09
Governments and institutions spend billions researching deforestation, excessive combustion of fossil fuels, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and CO2 emissions. They measure carbon footprints, and the public donate millions to offset theirs on land-based projects, such as planting more trees or...
Sep
12
Bahrain's beaches are at risk from the environmental impact of rapid growth. Photo courtesy of Bahrain Tourism Board.
A series of talks among scientists, business and economic leaders, politicians, academics, human rights activists, NGOs and others in the Kingdom of Bahrain has resulted in an...
Aug
23
Food prices have hovered near an all time peak since late 2010 sending tens of millions of people into poverty. After decades of steady progress in the fight against hunger, the number of people without enough to eat is again rising and could soon again top one billion (see Oxfam’s...
Aug
08
Oil refinery on Puget Sound. Credit: Walter Siegmund
A report released in July by the World Resources Institute and the Environmental Law Institute on the “social cost of carbon” identifies weaknesses in current cost-benefit analyses that dramatically underestimate the harm inflicted by climate...
Aug
07
5:57 a.m. EDT: Space shuttle Atlantis makes a pre-dawn landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center after completing 200 Earth orbits, and ending the program's 135th and final flight. Photo: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Jul
21
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced yesterday a new Cross-State Air Pollution Rule to improve air quality for 240 million Americans by significantly reducing harmful smokestack emissions produced outside of their own state borders.
Specifically...
Jul
08
Blue-green algal bloom. Source: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma is one of the most prominent climate change deniers in the U.S., and a frequent critic of the regulatory practices of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
An unfortunate run-in with reality,...
Jul
06
