Approximately 13 million tons of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans every year, threatening human health, biodiversity and the economy. Fortunately, a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are making progress in tackling plastic pollution.
After passing a trillion-dollar tax scam that gave huge benefits to wealthy corporations like oil companies and will leave the federal government running huge deficits for the next decade, suddenly President Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are trying…
The Environmental Protection Agency today, in a notice of proposed rulemaking, moved to downplay the benefits of public health and environmental safeguards.
New oil development has no place in sensitive wetland habitats in the Florida Everglades. The Burnett Oil Company claimed it could explore for oil in the Big Cypress National Preserve with no significant, long-term impacts to sensitive wetlands. But these…
Scientists are still trying to understand what paralyzed and eventually killed more than 30 critically endangered Verreaux’s sifakas in Madagascar this spring.
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