Enviroment
Power outages during heat waves have become more common, and they can turn deadly.
Most of the plastics found in brain tissue were tiny nanoplastics far narrower than a human hair.
With weather systems expected to hardly budge, the smoky blanket billowing across the U.S. and Canada from wildfires in Quebec and Nova Scotia will persist.
Our nation needs to talk more about the future of water, which I believe is one of the top public health and economic challenges now facing our country. This is a moment of opportunity - to drive smart, equitable, resilient investments to modernize our aging water infrastructure.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Noah Wilson-Rich Founder of The Best Bees Company is on a mission to expand the honey bee population while improving the overall health and safety of bees nationwide.
Noah Wilson-Rich Founder of The Best Bees Company is on a mission to expand the honey bee population while improving the overall health and safety of bees nationwide.
So, is Flint simply the story of a callous, politically motivated and irresponsible group of state and federal officials looking the other way? Is this story a one-off? Unfortunately, no.
Should crimes against the environment and animals be addressed by an international criminal code and prosecuted by an international tribunal, particularly if national courts are unwilling, unable or deemed inadequate?
Although EPA didn't find evidence of hydraulic fracturing activities causing widespread, systematic drinking water contamination, they did find many instances of localized impacts to water supply and water quality.
Fossil fuel divestment news filled my newsfeed over the past week, adding to a growing list of impressive divestment stories from the past year. Again and again, we see young people convincing their colleges to divest, activists convincing banks to divest, and shareholders convincing companies to divest.