Is This Common Herbicide Harming Your Health?
As part of his pledge to “Make America Healthy Again,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants to build ...
Tag: environment
Aboriginal group seeks $1.1bn in damages over Australia mining project
The Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal Corporation filed the landmark case against Western Australia’s state government.An Aboriginal group is seeking 1.8 billion ...
Dickson Despommier, Who Championed Farming in Skyscrapers, Dies at 84
Dickson Despommier, a microbiologist who proposed that cities should grow food in high-rises, popularizing the term “vertical farming” — an ...
California’s Push for Electric Trucks Sputters Under Trump
President Trump’s policies could threaten many big green energy projects in the coming years, but his election has already dealt ...
‘I thought I was dead’, says kayaker swallowed by whale in Chile
A kayaker who was briefly swallowed by a whale in Chile says he thought he was dead, before being spat ...
The Plastic vs. Paper Straw Debate, Explained
President Donald Trump is known to drink many Diet Cokes, but one thing you’re not likely to ever see him ...
How U.S.A.I.D. Affects National Parks and Conservation Worldwide
The money has restored coral reefs in the Seychelles, helped create a national park in Vietnam and turned former guerrillas ...
A look inside the Trump administration approach to artificial intelligence
President Trump rescinded his predecessor’s executive orders on artificial intelligence. That has implications for both government and industrial use of ...
Greece’s ‘Instagram island’ of Santorini rattled by 200 earthquakes
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has appealed for calm as hundreds of rolling earthquakes have left the residents of Santorini ...
American Bald Eagles Are Having a Moment
WEST ORANGE, N.J. — Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle ...
The Alaskan hero dogs who prevented a diphtheria epidemic in 1925
When Dr Curtis Welch checked on a very sick three-year-old patient who had been admitted to his tiny hospital on ...
Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America? Google Maps and contentious geography
United States President Donald Trump’s executive orders have crept into the realm of digital cartography. Google announced on Monday that ...
Lake Tanganyika fishers fight for their future amid declining catches
Kigoma, Tanzania – Just as dawn’s first rays start creeping over western Tanzania’s gentle hills, a constellation of scattered torchlights ...
E.V. Owners Don’t Pay Gas Taxes. So, Many States Are Charging Them Fees.
Owners of electric cars in Vermont recently got a letter from the Department of Motor Vehicles with some bad news. ...
Thousands flock to smell plant that reeks of dead rat, rotting rubbish
Huge crowds queued in Sydney to catch a whiff of the flower that smells like ‘hot rubbish’She may smell like ...
Air pollution in Thailand’s Bangkok forces more than 350 schools to close
Thai capital ranked as eighth-most polluted city worldwide as microparticles levels soar.More than 350 schools in Bangkok have been forced ...
Mapping the Hughes wildfire that is scorching the Los Angeles mountains
The new wildfire has scorched over 3,750 hectares near Castaic Lake, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Los Angeles.More ...
World leaders at Davos need to tax millionaires like me. The fate of our planet and democracy depends on it
The ultra-rich pose a threat to our democratic institutions—and the problem will deepen if extreme wealth is left unchecked. Read ...
New US ‘Hughes’ wildfire rips through mountains north of Los Angeles
Firefighting aircraft and ground crews are battling fast-moving wildfire in the Castaic Lake area north of Los Angeles.A fast-moving wildfire ...
As gold prices surge, Ghana faces ‘looming crisis’ over illegal mining
When activist Oliver Barker Vormawor saw reports in September that Ghana’s water agency would not be able to supply some ...
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