House Republicans passed a bill yesterday gutting Superfund. Yes, that's right, the Republican Party supports the exposure of Americans to toxic waste. Of course, as we all know there is no meaningful difference between the parties and thus Rand Paul is the only true progressive...
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A rundown of animals officially declared extinct in 2013 and how they reached their end.
The plastisphere, a new ecological regime of the oceans defined by humans dumping plastic into the oceans, has the potential to dramatically remake water life. About 245 million tons of.
Today, dolphins: So far this year, nearly 1,000 bottlenose dolphins — eight times the historical average — have washed up dead along the Eastern Seaboard from New York to Florida, a vast majority of them victims of morbillivirus. Many more are expected to die from...
It's not just the state of the oceans that makes me want to drink. Reading about the Great Lakes will do just fine. Tiny plastic beads used in hundreds of.
In comments yesterday, duck-billed placelot pointed me to a truly terrifying story. Basically all the starfish in the northern Pacific are disintegrating. It’s normal for a tiny portion of starfish.
I assume anyone paying attention to what is happening to the ocean ecosystem also drinks heavily.
The West has reinvigorated its war on wolves and the Obama Administration has sadly capitulated to Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, in what is yet another example of its poor policy.
Michelle Chen provides a useful overview of the intertwined environmental and humanitarian disaster of American policies toward the Mexican border. She covers several important issues. To excerpt from her introduction:.
This is not an acceptable decision from the EPA during a Democratic administration: Today, the Environmental Protection Agency allowed the Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection to change how toxic selenium pollution from mountaintop removal mines is measured for the purposes of determining compliance with the...
The corn industry's hustle to force us to turn it into fuel may have reached its peak. Normally, one might not look well upon the EPA lowering a standard that.
There's a certain kind of environmental writing that drives a lot of people crazy. This is the jeremiad that tells us the world is failing, we are at a tipping.