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New Climate Crisis Report: Invest $1.8 Trillion Now or Pay Heavier Price Later
The images of the climate crisis are devastating. People around the world, especially the world's poor, are suffering from extreme weather, droughts and wildfires. The latest example was in the wake...
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Take a Nap or Two Every Week. Your Heart Will Thank You, New Study Says
If you're feeling that mid-afternoon sluggishness, it may help to give into temptation and doze off for a little while. Just don't do it too often.That's the key findings from a new study published in...
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This Football Stadium Was Transformed Into a Living Forest In Dystopian...
Austria's Wörthersee Football Stadium has a new team on the playing field. Normally packed with up to 30,000 sports fans, the stadium has been transformed into a living forest in an attempt to bring...
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Bahamians in Humanitarian Crisis After Dorian Now Denied Ability to Live and...
The Trump administration will not grant temporary protected status to people evacuating the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian, the White House announced Wednesday. On the same day, Bahamian authorities...
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Study Finds Microplastics Stunt Earthworms’ Growth and Could Harm Soil...
The ocean isn't the only ecosystem threatened by microplastics.A first-of-its-kind study published Wednesday in Environmental Science and Technology found that particles from the kind of plastic...
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Trump Calls for Banning Flavored E-Cigarettes
The Trump administration will ban flavored e-cigarettes. It comes in response to a surge in youth vaping and health concerns following a handful of mysterious deaths and hundreds of lung illnesses...
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First Major U.S. Insurer Begins Divestment from Fossil Fuels
By Elana SulakshanaIt seems like every day there is a new story of a pipeline spilling crude oil or an oil refinery exploding. How do fossil fuel companies continue to operate such hazardous...
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U.S. Could Lose Measles Elimination Status by October
By Julia RiesThe measles virus was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.But if more cases of the measles virus are detected next month, it could mean an end of that elimination...
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University of Cambridge Takes Red Meat off the Menu
By Paul BrownA sustainable food policy which ends red meat meals has improved student diets and boosted a university catering service's profits.The University of Cambridge in England, one of the...
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Australia’s Natural Disaster Minister Denies Climate Science One Day,...
While more than 130 wildfires are raging across two states in eastern Australia — Queensland and New South Wales — at an unusually early part of the spring, taxing the water supplies of the...
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Canada Tells Flood Victims It’s Time to Move
The city of Gatineau, just across the river from Canada's capital city of Ottawa was inundated by a 100-year flood in 2017. Then, this past April, the flooding was worse, which has prompted the...
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Trump Admin Repeals Obama-Era Clean Water Protections
The Trump administration repealed the 2015 Clean Water Rule rule Thursday, a rule intended to protect 60 percent of the nation's waterways from pollution, The New York Times reported.NoneAt stake is...
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Record 7 Million People Displaced by Extreme Weather Events in First Half of...
In another sign of the climate crisis, a record seven million people were displaced from their homes by extreme weather events during the first half of 2019, The New York Times reported Thursday.The...
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Japan's New Environmental Minister Calls for Closing Down All Nuclear...
By Jessica CorbettJapan's new environmental minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, called Wednesday for permanently shutting down the nation's nuclear reactors to prevent a repeat of the 2011 Fukushima disaster,...
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Universe Might Be 2 Billion Years Younger: Study
The universe is expanding much quicker than previously thought, according to researchers in Germany, leading scientists to suggest it may be more than 2 billion years younger than past...
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Fracked Gas Well Blowout in Louisiana Likely to Burn for the Next Month
By Julie Dermansky A fracked natural gas well in northwest Louisiana has been burning for two weeks after suffering a blowout. A state official said the fire will likely burn for the next month before...
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Trump Admin Grants First Lion Trophy Import Permit Since Listed as Threatened
A Florida man has been allowed to import a Tanzanian lion's skin, skull, claws and teeth, a first since the animal was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, according to US Fish and...
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Lawmakers Take Manufacturing Companies to Task Over Toxic PFAS Chemicals in...
Tensions between lawmakers and several large manufacturing companies came to a head on Capitol Hill this week during a hearing on toxic fluorochemicals in U.S. drinking water.Representatives from the...
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How to Lose Weight on a Vegetarian Diet
By Elizabeth Streit, MS, RDN, LDVegetarianism has become increasingly popular in recent years.This diet is associated with a lower risk of chronic diseases and may aid weight loss (1Trusted...
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Trump Moves to Open 1.5 Million Acres of Alaskan Refuge for Oil Drilling By...
The Trump administration has initialized the final steps to open up nearly 1.6 million acres of the protected Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge to allow oil and gas drilling. The Bureau of Land...
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