The Environmental Protection Agency slapped electric car manufacturer Tesla with an $86,000 settlement for violating…
Land mines are notorious for leaving a legacy of ongoing destruction from Southeast Asia to Africa, taking the lives…
When Kate Smith brings her samples into the lab, she has to wear a special suit. Even a speck of dust brought in on her…
For most of his life, British author and BBC radio producer Tim Dee has been a birdwatcher. But it’s not finches and…
When Hurricane Florence slammed into North Carolina last year, concerns grew over whether the flood waters would breach…
An underground garbage fire at an illegal Arkansas dumping site has been burning for over seven months straight, the As…
Crystal Jankowski went into labor during the 2014 water crisis in Toledo, Ohio. The city’s 276,000 residents couldn’t…
Our plastic pollution problem is absolutely out of control. We know it’s bad, and the companies selling us shit know…
How many of us are guilty of throwing compostable chopsticks in the garbage? Or food-soiled aluminum containers in the…
Medicines do an excellent job of increasing the quality of life for humans around the world, but the drugs don’t stay…
New reports of microplastics turning up in just about everything from our bottled water to our beer pop up often to…
The shape of things to come in U.S. politics could be decided, in no small part, by foul-smelling, fish-killing slime.
The red tide algae bloom that’s plagued Florida’s Gulf Coast for months has now jumped east to the Atlantic. Florida…
A group of industrial chemicals humans started banning decades ago could cause many of the world’s orca whale…
The Environmental Protection Agency has been slacking when it comes to monitoring asbestos in schools. It did such a…
The Dutch nonprofit Ocean Cleanup deployed a 2,000-foot-long, $20 million unmanned boom designed to gather some of the…
On August 21, people incarcerated in states across the U.S. stopped working, went on hunger strikes, and started…
There are now enough pigs in Spain that technically everyone could have one, and there’d be pigs to spare. Per the…
In what has become a deeply unwelcome summertime tradition, Floridians are once again finding their waterways befouled…
Andrew Wheeler, former aide to climate change denier Sen. James Inhofe, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee…
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