Category Archives: Environment
Children of Flint water crisis make change as young environmental and health activists
Their childhood memories are still vivid: warnings against drinking or cooking with tap water, enduring long lines for cases of water, washing from buckets filled with heated, bottled water. And for some, stomach aches, skin rashes and hair loss.
Greece plans 2 marine protected areas. But rival Turkey and environmental groups aren’t impressed
Greece aims to create two large marine parks as part of a 780-million-euro ($830 million) program to protect biodiversity and marine ecosystems, with the plans to be announced at an international oceans conference starting in Athens on Tuesday.
EPA Imposes Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set its first-ever national, legally enforceable limits on PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” in drinking water on Wednesday.
Extreme drought in southern Africa leaves millions hungry
Delicately and with intense concentration, Zanyiwe Ncube poured her small share of precious golden cooking oil into a plastic bottle at a food aid distribution site deep in rural Zimbabwe.
Spraying manure and throwing beets, farmers in tractors again block Brussels to protest EU policies
Farmers threw beets, sprayed manure at police and set hay alight on Tuesday as hundreds of tractors again sealed off streets close to the European Union headquarters, where agriculture ministers sought to ease a crisis that has led to months of protests across the 27-member bloc.
Nevada’s first big-game moose hunt will be tiny as unusual southern expansion defies climate change
In what will be a tiny big-game hunt for some of the largest animals in North America, Nevada is planning its first-ever moose hunting season this fall.
Public outraged after court permits dumping of hazardous waste in critical bodies of water: ‘It’s frightening that the judicial system shows so little
Many of the world’s most useful materials, including metals and minerals with no available substitutes, can only be collected by mining. But mining also produces a huge amount of waste, including toxic byproducts, fine particles that pollute air and water, and sometimes even radioactive materials.
Supreme Court poised to block Biden administration’s plan to limit health threat: ‘[It] would undermine … the public interest’
The Supreme Court appears ready to limit the Biden administration’s ability to protect the environment once again.
A small drone flies into a damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor for the first time to study melted fuel
A drone small enough to fit in one’s hand flew inside one of the damaged reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Wednesday in hopes it can examine some of the molten fuel debris in areas where earlier robots failed to reach.
Rio’s Carnival parade makes urgent plea to stop illegal mining in Indigenous lands
Carnival dancers took the biggest stage in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday night with their faces painted red in a traditional Indigenous manner, while percussionists had “Miners out” written across the skins of their drums.
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