From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Judith Enck, the founder of advocacy group Beyond Plastics. After World War II, plastics grew from a cheap wartime alternative to a staple in the Americ
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RSS →There’s no way to close off the open-air stadium where stars Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal are slated to square off.
Virginia’s seven federally recognized tribes said they’re cautiously optimistic about their prospects of becoming full signatories to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement even after program leadership missed the July 1 deadline for presenting a roadmap on how to include the tri
This article previously appeared in Cambridge Day. From Boston’s Museum of Science to the Watertown Dam, the Charles River this spring was rife with river herring swirling in the water like scores of baby sharks. Near the dam, dozens of the aptly named herring gulls perched on ro
When Antonio Machado Allison assisted with earthquake response efforts in Venezuela’s capital of Caracas in 1967, he felt confident in the way the government mobilized its teams. When he arrived, Allison described immediately seeing a plethora of state agencies onsite organizing
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with UC Boulder senior research scientist Ted Scambos. Midsummer in the Northern Hemisphere marks the dead of winter in Antarctica, usually a time
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JSON →Utah's Republican politicians and the Trump administration said shrinking Bears Ears was what locals really wanted.
The world has found ways to adapt without crude from the Strait of Hormuz. Experts say that won’t last.
French Polynesia says it was "approached, but not consulted" about a Bay Area startup's plan to explore seabed mining near its marine preserve.
From the Arctic to the Pacific, Indigenous advocates say their voices are too often ignored.
The state’s first Superfund research center is looking into how climate change is resurfacing industrial pollution.
Two executive orders signed Monday afternoon slashed the size of the Utah national monuments revered by tribes and public lands advocates. Grazing, mining, and drilling interests wanted them opened to extraction.
Data centers have drawn vocal opposition at local public meetings and in state capitols across the U.S.
Residents of one First Nations community went door-to-door warning neighbors before fleeing by boat. More than 900 fires continue burning across Canada.
There’s no way to close off the open-air stadium where stars Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal are slated to square off.
As the country sizzled through heat waves, the government removed some of its most actionable advice about how to conserve energy.
Despite "adverse" impacts on ecological and tribal resources, state regulators said it's better than an oil spill in the Great Lakes.
A year after Trump repealed the Inflation Reduction Act, the outlook for climate action is dark. But there are silver linings.
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