A refinery in New Mexico that the federal government has accused of some of the worst air pollution in the country. A chemical plant in Louisiana being investigated for leaking gas from storage tanks. Idaho ranchers accused of polluting wetlands. Under President Biden, the Environmental Protection Agency took a tough approach on environmental enforcement by […]
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Trump’s tariffs and executive orders seem to assume that foreign competition and lack of lands to log are the primary things hampering U.S. timber production. But when I talked to experts familiar with the industry’s history, they painted a more complicated picture. There are some potential upsides to boosting domestic timber production—even on the environmental […]
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Amid the torrent of executive orders signed by President Trump were directives that affect the language on government web pages and the public’s access to government data touching on climate change, the environment, energy and public health. In the past two months, hundreds of terabytes of digital resources analyzing data have been taken off government […]
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Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil will have his day in court. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman on Wednesday tossed the Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss Khalil’s case, instead transferring the case to New Jersey—where Khalil was first held in detention, and where he resided when his attorneys challenged his deportation—rather than Louisiana, where he […]
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The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, according to documents reviewed by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. The strategy is part of large-scale layoffs, known as a “reduction in force,” being planned by the Trump […]
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A new national park in Galloway, southwest Scotland, would bring an end to the stunning but overlooked region’s “obscurity”, said The i Paper. But the proposal to create the UK’s first new national park in 15 years is at the centre of an “increasingly bitter” row among local residents, complete with accusations of sign-stealing, a […]
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These cuts include at least 27 engineers, 12 program or project managers, 13 program or project analysts, five scientists or physicists, six budget analysts or accountants, as well as multiple attorneys, safety experts, and compliance officers. The job losses are coming despite the NNSA being in its busiest period since the Cold War, according to […]
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What happened At least 40 people were killed over the weekend in a complex of powerful tornadoes, wind-fueled wildfires and dust storms across the Midwest and South. Mississippi was whipped by 32 of the 81 tornadoes, and Missouri recorded at least 12 deaths, the most of any state. Who said what The “scale of devastation” […]
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“We have deep ties to the region, and I’ve always considered it the one constant I’ve ever had in an otherwise pretty tumultuous life, which is why I feel so strongly about protecting it,” said Seneca Lake resident Yvonne Taylor, who is a member of Seneca Lake Guardian, one of the groups represented in the […]
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Greenpeace is among the most well-known environmental organizations in the world, the result of more than 50 years of headline-grabbing protest tactics. Its activists have confronted whaling ships on the high seas. They’ve hung banners from the Eiffel Tower. They’ve occupied oil rigs. A (fictional) activist even sailed with Greenpeace in an episode of “Seinfeld,” […]
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Despite reports that one of his pet issues is even more urgent than previously supposed, Kennedy seems to have changed the subject. Last week he called anti-Semitism a “malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues,” as his administration ignores or mishandles both bird flu and measles. (All […]
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The world’s climate has become more unpredictable, leading experts to coin the term “global weirding.” The rising temperatures are creating extreme weather that looks different all across the globe. Some cities have seen contradictory weather phenomena back to back, making recovery difficult. Climate change is only expected to get worse, which is likely to bring […]
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Warming temperatures may be taking a toll on older adults. New research has linked extreme heat exposure to a higher epigenetic age, indicating that climate change could be accelerating the aging process. Understanding how heat affects the human body can help humans better prepare as the planet’s temperatures continue to warm. Warm bodies According to […]
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In a barrage of pronouncements on Wednesday the Trump administration said it would repeal dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations, including limits on pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks, protections for wetlands, and the legal basis that allows it to regulate the greenhouse gases that are heating the planet. But beyond that, Lee Zeldin, […]
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Canada’s fresh round of sanctions is in response to Trump’s decision to plow ahead with 25 percent tariffs on metal imports. The country is the largest foreign supplier of steel and aluminum to the U.S. The European Union also hit back against Trump’s tariffs Wednesday with its own tariffs of $28 billion of U.S. goods […]
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The combination of human activity and climate change is causing several regions of California to sink. New data also details how vertical land motion may play a larger part in rising sea levels than previously expected. These changes are increasingly likely to put communities at risk for heavy flooding in the future. Sinking cities The […]
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The Trump administration intends to eliminate Environmental Protection Agency offices responsible for addressing the disproportionately high levels of pollution facing poor communities, according to a memo from Lee Zeldin, the agency administrator. In the internal memo, viewed by The New York Times, Mr. Zeldin informed agency leaders that he was directing “the reorganization and elimination” […]
Read MoreThe East Yorkshire coast is home to a wealth of marine life and seabirds – but yesterday’s dramatic collision in the North Sea between an oil tanker and a cargo ship could put that at risk. The Portuguese-flagged cargo ship, the Solong, had previously thought to have been carrying 15 containers of highly toxic sodium […]
Read MoreThe sprawling estuary about 70 miles inland from San Francisco feels distinctly out of place — more like the swampy Florida Everglades than arid California. But from that confluence of two great rivers, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, 1,100 miles of webbed waterways and levees send upward of six million acre-feet of freshwater a […]
Read MoreMIT aerospace engineers have found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the number of satellites that can sustainably operate there. In a study appearing today in Nature Sustainability, the researchers report that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases can cause the upper atmosphere […]
Read MoreTwelve Kenai Peninsula Borough high school students were selected Thursday by a panel of judges as finalists in the 35th annual Caring for the Kenai competition. The finalists will compete in the oral presentation phase of the CFK program for more than $30,000 in cash awards, a March 7 press release states. More than 300 […]
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A new MIT-led study confirms that the Antarctic ozone layer is healing, as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances. Scientists including the MIT team have observed signs of ozone recovery in the past. But the new study is the first to show, with high statistical confidence, that this recovery is due primarily […]
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The Panama Canal’s water levels have been dwindling, and this shift will have significant economic consequences for the region. To combat the change, the Panama government approved the Rio Indio Reservoir Project. The plan could guarantee water supply to approximately 50% of the country’s population but will also displace many Panamanians. Water woes Panama’s Lake […]
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The Panama Canal’s water levels have been dwindling, and this shift will have significant economic consequences for the region. To combat the change, the Panama government approved the Rio Indio Reservoir Project. The plan could guarantee water supply to approximately 50% of the country’s population but will also displace many Panamanians. Water woes Panama’s Lake […]
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The Trump administration has made a huge impact on America’s federal workforce — and not in a good way. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is led by billionaire Elon Musk, has fired both new and career workers less than just two months after it formed. Even though the agency stated that “large-scale reductions […]
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The opening week of the landmark trial of Greenpeace in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by Energy Transfer over the Dakota Access Pipeline protests did not bode well for the defense. Lawyers for Greenpeace said so themselves in a petition filed in North Dakota’s Supreme Court. They asked the court on Thursday to move the trial out […]
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In a few short weeks, President Trump has severely damaged the government’s ability to fight climate change, upending American environmental policy with moves that could have lasting implications for the country, and the planet. With a flurry of actions that have stretched the limits of presidential power, Mr. Trump has gutted federal climate efforts, rolled […]
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Editor’s note: The Climate Fix is our twice-a-month guide to the most important solutions to fighting climate change across the world. Have comments about what we should cover? Email us at Climateforward@nytimes.com. One of the biggest hurdles to bringing clean energy sources online in the U.S. often isn’t a lack of money, necessity or even […]
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While the Trump administration in Washington was cutting environmental programs, delegates at U.N. biodiversity talks in Rome made modest progress Thursday on a series of measures to support nature. Governments gathered to tackle global biodiversity losses that are unprecedented in human history, driven by the ways people have transformed the world. The seismic geopolitical changes […]
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The Trump administration has begun firing employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s premier centers for climate science. The firings are expected to cost more than 800 people their jobs, out of a total of about 13,000 staff members, according to two people familiar with the situation who declined to […]
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In his first official cabinet meeting of his second term, President Trump on Wednesday indicated that the Environmental Protection Agency, the arm of the federal government essential to protecting our health and environment, is among the top targets for the next wave of major work force reductions. Mr. Trump said about 65 percent of the […]
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