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Climate Change Is Threatening Many Species, But One Is Getting a Boost

Climate Change Is Threatening Many Species, But One Is Getting a Boost

By Lucy Goodchild van Hilten A towering elm tree stands 30 meters (approximately 98 feet) tall, somewhere near the border between England and Scotland, defying the fate that so many of its cousins met when Dutch elm disease ravaged the species in the 1970s. One of relatively few elm trees left, it is a haven […]

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    Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Wants to End EPA’s Cruel Animal Testing

    Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Wants to End EPA’s Cruel Animal Testing

    By Justin Goodman and Nathan Herschler A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress recently pressed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its “questionable” and “dubious” animal tests. The lawmakers’ demand for information on “horrific and inhumane” animal testing at the EPA comes on the heels of a recent Johns Hopkins University study that found […]

    Why We Need More Women Involved in Creating Environmental Policy

    Why We Need More Women Involved in Creating Environmental Policy

    By Lucy Goodchild van Hilten Three years into the Sustainable Development Goals—17 global goals set by the United Nations—many countries’ policy makers are developing domestic legislation that will help them reach environmental targets, from cutting carbon emissions to improving clean water and sanitation. But when it comes to environmental research and action, weighing the options […]

    Will the Gulf of Mexico Remain a Dumping Ground for Offshore Fracking Waste?

    Will the Gulf of Mexico Remain a Dumping Ground for Offshore Fracking Waste?

    By Mike Ludwig As the Trump administration moves to gut Obama-era clean water protections nationwide, an environmental group is warning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its draft pollution discharge permit for offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico violates clean water laws because it allows operators to dump fracking chemicals and large […]

    Fukushima Radiation and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

    Fukushima Radiation and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

    By Dahr Jamail Former nuclear industry senior vice president Arnie Gundersen, who managed and coordinated projects at 70 U.S. atomic power plants, is appalled at how the Japanese government is handling the Fukushima nuclear crisis. “The inhumanity of the Japanese government toward the Fukushima disaster refugees is appalling,” Gundersen, a licensed reactor operator with 45 […]

    18 Signs That Show We’ve Reached the Tipping Point

    18 Signs That Show We’ve Reached the Tipping Point

    By Bruce Melton Our planet’s systems have a tremendous capacity to absorb punishment before they begin to show signs of degradation. Earth’s ecology self-heals like a cut on a finger. It assimilates pollution by chemical, physical and biological means—it changes pollutants into non-hazardous materials and proceeds upon its merry way as if there had been […]