Greenland is home to world’s second-largest ice sheet. And when it melts significantly — as it is expected to do this year — there are knock-on effects for sea levels and weather across the globe. Greenland’s ice sheet usually melts during the summer. This […]
This is where the global dimension of the problem begins. It is often cheaper for developed countries to ship containers of plastic waste halfway around the world to be “recycled” in developing countries than to deal with the trash themselves. While plastic importing and […]
Several sentinel chickens tested positive for EEE, which can spread to humans via infected mosquitoes and cause brain infection and swelling, the Florida Department of Health in Orange County said in a Thursday statement. Sentinel chickens are fowl that are tested regularly for the West […]
The oil spill occurred on Saturday off Guarello Island on the Chilean side of Patagonia, the pristine southernmost region making up the tip of both Argentina and Chile. Chilean mining company CAP, which mines on the island, reported the incident to the navy. The […]
A group of investors that manages $2 trillion on Monday pressured cement makers to accelerate efforts to reduce their emissions . The coalition is made up of members of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change and Climate Action 100+, a leading campaign group […]
But tree cover in US cities is shrinking. A study published last year by the US Forest Service found that we lost 36 million trees annually from urban and rural communities over a five-year period. That’s a 1% drop from 2009 to 2014. […]
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