Seven people were injured and hospitalized after a series of natural gas pipeline explosions in Midland County, Texas on Wednesday, according to local media. All pipelines in the region have been shut in. Midland sits in the booming oil- and shale-rich Permian Basin, which has multiple pipelines serving the field. The operator of the pipeline […]
The Ocean Cleanup is preparing to launch its highly anticipated cleanup system in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But the contraption’s final design looks slightly different from the original vision. The non-profit organization, founded by 23-year-old Dutch inventor and entrepreneur Boyan Slat, aims to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. Five years ago, the then-teenager […]
A former school groundskeeper in California testified Monday in a landmark lawsuit claiming that repeated exposure to Monsanto‘s popular Roundup weedkiller caused his terminal cancer. “I would never have sprayed the product around school grounds or around people if I thought it would cause them harm,” the 46-year-old Dewayne “Lee” Johnson told the San Francisco […]
Earth Overshoot Day—a marker of when the world’s 7.6 billion people will “use more from nature than our planet can renew in the entire year”—will fall on Aug. 1, the earliest date yet since we first went into ecological debt in the 1970s. “In other words, humanity is currently using nature 1.7 times faster than […]
Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Andrew Wheeler addressed his new employees for the first time Wednesday, setting the tone and agenda for his leadership, Pacific Standard reported. Wheeler broke with ex-EPA head Scott Pruitt in style, but not in substance, vowing to be more transparent and listen to career staffers while also upholding President […]
Scientists at New York University (NYU) caught climate change and the resulting sea level rise in action with dramatic video footage they released via press release Friday. The video shows a four-mile iceberg, about half the size of Manhattan, breaking away from Greenland‘s Helheim Glacier. “Global sea-level rise is both undeniable and consequential,” NYU professor […]
A 9-year-old girl’s death from asthma has been linked to illegal levels of air pollution in the UK, the first such reported fatality. Ella Kissi-Debrah, who lived just 80 feet from London’s busy and highly polluted South Circular Road, died in February 2013 after suffering three years of seizures and nearly 30 admissions to the […]
Tess Thompson Talley of Kentucky has sparked public outcry after photos of her proudly posing with a black giraffe she killed in South Africa last year went viral. The big game hunter posted images of the June 2017 hunt onto her social media page. Then last month, the South Africa-based news outlet Africland tweeted out […]
Sen. John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, released draft legislation Monday to significantly overhaul the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Under Barrasso’s proposal, individual states would be given key authority over the federal program to conserve threatened and endangered species. “When it comes to the Endangered Species Act, the status quo is not good enough,” the Environment […]
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