In May 2013, two men carried out a non-violent direct action in a small lobster boat blockaded a freighter trying to deliver 40,000 tons of Appalachian coal to the Brayton Point coal-fired power plant...
On the front lines of the fracking wars in western Pennsylvania, a group called Protect Our Children is fighting for a one mile buffer between schools and natural gas infrastructure; another group is even...
The Amazon rainforest is another imperiled carbon sink — one of the most crucial in the world. But deforestation – much of it by logging – is severely affecting the complex ecosystem. Logging activities...
Download Audio The planet’s atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations reached a new record high in 2013, driven by a surge in carbon dioxide levels. That’s according to a report released this week by the United...
Download audio This summer could end up being one of the worst on record for corals in the Caribbean and Florida. First, they’re facing unprecedented levels of ocean acidification. The World Meteorological Organization’s annual...
By Tithe Farhana Hazaribagh is an area of Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh, and is principally known for its tannery industry and large leather processing zone. Currently, 270 registered tanneries operate here employing...
This week marked a couple of milestones in national environmental policy. On Wednesday, the Wilderness Act turned 50. The law created the National Wilderness Preservation System, charged with protecting and maintaining just over nine...
The US Environmental Protection Agency held a day-long public hearing Tuesday near Houston over proposed new rules regarding air quality at oil refineries. The Gulf Coast area stretching from Houston, Texas to Baton Rouge,...
A delegation from the Grassy Narrows First Nation traveled more than 20 hours by car from their community in northern Ontario to Toronto. 50 years ago, massive amounts of mercury were dumped in their...
If you eat meat produced in the United States, chances are the livestock spent at least part of its life at a confined animal feeding operation – or “factory farm.” As these enormous livestock...
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