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Environment & Health
Burned by Slow Government Response, California Residents Mistrust Cleanup Efforts
Exide Technologies leaked lead and other carcinogens into the soil, air and water in surrounding residential neighborhoods.
How Coal Shipping Accidents Are Damaging Coral Reefs Around the World
A few kilometers off the coast of Madagascar, the coal-laden New Mykonos ship has sunk and is slowly breaking apart.
How a Trump Presidency Could Wreck the Paris Climate Deal
Donald Trump's energy adviser is a climate denier urging the candidate to scrap the Clean Power Plan and pursue more dirty energy policies.
Protesters Blockade Planned Pipeline Site Near Nuclear Plant Outside New York City
Peekskill residents and activists escalated the campaign to stop this pipeline's construction.
Three Takeaways From New Study on GMOs
A report from the National Academies of Sciences on GE technology was met with cheers from the biotech industry.
Dahr Jamail | Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Has Passed the Point of No Return
Human-caused climate disruption is causing “unprecedented” melting in the Arctic, and record wildfires and temperatures.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: More Than 600,000 Miles of Arctic Sea Ice Have Disappeared, and More
Since 1979, more than 600,000 square miles of winter sea ice have disappeared — an area larger than twice the size of Texas.
Watching the Rails: One Community’s Quest for Safety
Faced with a deadly new threat, residents in one predominately African-American community are organizing their neighbors and allies from far and wide.
What’s a Carbon Farmer? How California Ranchers Use Dirt to Tackle Climate Change
Scientists believe that simple land management techniques can increase the rate at which carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored in soils.
Disproving Our Preconceived Notions of Animal Intelligence
One of the “great minds of science” discusses how research continues to disprove preconceived notions of animal intelligence.