How a farmer turned his fields into a wildlife sanctuary
Karl Wenner’s Oregon land once leaked pollution into a nearby lake. Now, 70 acres are home to waterfowl, turtles and endangered fish. “This place wanted to be a wetland.”
Karl Wenner’s Oregon land once leaked pollution into a nearby lake. Now, 70 acres are home to waterfowl, turtles and endangered fish. “This place wanted to be a wetland.”
No worries regardless of travel distance; plug-in hybrid vehicles help reduce urban air pollution and trips to the gas station.
The lengthy absence of Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) is hindering the slim majority Democrats hold in the U.S. Senate, enabling Republicans to undermine efforts to protect Americans from air pollution.
Fiona Harvey in Sharm el-Sheikh Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd. Climate Trace reports half of 50 largest sources of greenhouse gas are oil…
Setting aside the rumors of how COVID-19 came to upend our lives everywhere, here’s a compilation of recent stories from trustworthy sources I frequent when searching for story ideas for this site.
In the summer of 2018, the story of a grieving orca mourning the death of her calf captured the world’s attention. The orca, Tahlequah, had…
Pollution is worse in racially divided communities than in racially integrated areas, harmful to whites as well as minorities, research shows. Studies have linked segregation…
In 1968, a group of researchers warned that increasing carbon dioxide emissions were certain to cause significant temperature changes by 2000, and beyond. But as…
While U.S. politicians continue to pander to the fossil fuel industry, Norway continues to extend its leadership role in alternative energy.
Five trillion recently was the estimated number of microplastic particle pollution in the ocean — 5,000,000,000,000 — but new research has led scientists to believe…