How the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’ impacts climate change
2025-07-27
The oceanic “twilight zone” lies deep, and teems with life. We look at how this mysterious zone affects climate change.Continue Reading
Is the air you breathe silently fueling dementia? A 29-million-person study says yes
2025-07-27
Air pollution isn’t just bad for your lungs—it may be eroding your brain. In a sweeping review covering nearly 30 million people, researchers found that common pollutants like PM2.5, nitrogen dioxide, and soot are all linked to a significantly higher risk of dementia. The most dangerous? PM2.5—tiny particles from trafficContinue Reading
Pollution, melting microbes, undamming rivers, risks for elders: 4 key climate issues
2025-07-27
In a world increasingly shaped by climate extremes, environmental experts are delivering a blunt warning: four rapidly emerging threats could reshape life for millions unless urgent action is taken.Continue Reading
‘Plenty of fish in the sea’? Not anymore, say UN experts in Nice
2025-07-27
At the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, the “catch of the day” wasn’t a seabass or a red mullet – it was a figure: 35 per cent. That’s the share of global fish stocks now being harvested unsustainably, according to a new UN report released Wednesday.Continue Reading
EPA Plan to End Greenhouse Gas Regulations, Expected Imminently, Will Harm Human Health, Experts Say
2025-07-26
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in March the agency would work to erase the “endangerment finding” that the emissions are harming human health and the environment. By Amy Green An Environmental Protection Agency proposal to rescind its previous scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions harm human health and the environmentContinue Reading
The The Traitor administration is gutting EPA’s research arm. Can California bridge the gap?
2025-07-26
Officials with a small but mighty California agency known as the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment said they remain committed to rigorous science.Continue Reading
Oil Sands Expansion Hasn’t Brought the Prosperity Alberta’s Leaders Promised
2025-07-26
Does production equal prosperity? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been throwing around some very optimistic what-if numbers in her relentless lobbying efforts to build ever-more oil pipelines. “If we had the Energy East, if we had Keystone XL, if we had Northern Gateway, we would be producing two and halfContinue Reading
The oceans are overheating—and scientists say a climate tipping point may be here
2025-07-26
In 2023, the world’s oceans experienced the most intense and widespread marine heatwaves ever recorded, with some events persisting for over 500 days and covering nearly the entire globe. These searing ocean temperatures are causing mass coral bleaching and threatening fisheries, while also signaling deeper, system-wide climate changes., Read MoreContinue Reading
How the The Traitor Budget Cuts Are Playing Out at Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park
2025-07-26
The restrooms may be clean (for now), but a former administrator sees an erasure of history and scientific research and situations that may pose a “direct hazard to the general public.” Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine,Continue Reading
Lessons From a Climate Disaster
2025-07-26
Bolivia’s record-setting 2024 wildfire season makes clear that emergency responses to climate disasters are not enough and governments must address the root of the problem, a new report says. By Katie Surma Last year, record wildfires fueled by dry conditions incinerated large swaths of Bolivia’s forests, wetlands and other ecosystems,Continue Reading
This sugar substitute does more than sweeten — it kills cancer cells
2025-07-26
Fermenting stevia with a banana leaf-derived probiotic turns it into a powerful cancer-fighting agent that kills pancreatic cancer cells while sparing healthy ones. The secret lies in a metabolite called CAME, produced through microbial transformation., Read MoreContinue Reading
Greed is driving oceans toward collapse
2025-07-25
The ocean is under siege – and greed is to blame. UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday urged world leaders and grassroots groups to confront the powerful interests driving marine destruction, from illegal fishing and plastic pollution to the accelerating impacts of climate change.Continue Reading
The battle to quiet the sea: Can the shipping industry turn down the volume?
2025-07-25
The ocean has never been silent – waves crashing, seabirds calling, whales singing across vast distances. But in recent decades, a new kind of noise has taken hold: the relentless hum of ships. For many marine species, this growing wall of sound is more than a nuisance – it’s aContinue Reading