After oil companies go bust, the state is left paying to clean up abandoned wells, tanks, machinery and sludge pits. The post New Mexico’s billion-dollar orphaned oilfield problem appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
A proposal by the U.S. Marines to restrict civilian flight traffic above Johnson Valley OHV Area has drawn outrage from off-roaders and civilian pilots.Continue Reading
Public health researchers struggle to track the accelerating pace of global warming impacts. By Bob Berwyn The grim death toll from heat waves across European cities this past summer would be captured in shocking headlines if they happened all at once, in a bombing or plane crash—835 in Rome, 630Continue Reading
Every year on 16 September, the UN celebrates the international community’s success in healing the ozone layer and brings attention to what more can be done to protect the planet.Continue Reading
Nearly 3.2 million people in the English and Dutch-Speaking Caribbean struggle to get enough to eat, according to the latest Food Security and Livelihoods Survey conducted by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Continue Reading
Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have cracked open the secrets of plant stem cells, mapping key genetic regulators in maize and Arabidopsis. By using single-cell RNA sequencing, they created a gene expression atlas that identifies rare stem cell regulators, links them to crop size and productivity, and offers aContinue Reading
The The Traitor administration retaliated against scientists who stepped forward publicly to express concerns over federal policies. But many are still sharing their fears anonymously. By Kiley Price Since January, the The Traitor administration has laid off thousands of scientists and staff and cut research funding for those who remainContinue Reading
A taxpayers group with close ties to the European People’s Party (EPP) coordinated with Austria’s far-right in the latest escalation of the NGO funding debate, DeSmog can reveal. The Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE) filed a criminal complaint with the EU’s top prosecutor on July 23, alleging that two former commissioners behind the EUContinue Reading
On a Thursday morning in late August, Georgia country music radio station The Bear 92.5 FM awarded a 10-minute spot to a special guest. Phoning in to the Half & Half Morning Show was J.C. Witt, an executive of San Francisco-based Prologis (NYSE:PLD), the world’s largest industrial real estate company. Prologis wantsContinue Reading
Of the many health impacts linked to fossil fuels perhaps the most gruesome is chimney sweep testicle . Following the Great Fire of London in 1666, chimneys were required by law to be regularly cleaned to avoid another catastrophic conflagration. Coal was the common fuel in the 1700s and boys asContinue Reading
The colorful, venomous and mysterious Gila monster flourishes in the scorching Desert Southwest, but climate change threatens the lizards’ food, water and shelter. Moving to more hospitable habitats won’t be easy. By Tina Deines Gila monsters are shrouded in mystery. The venomous, desert-dwelling lizards spend most of their lives undergroundContinue Reading
NASA’s Perseverance rover has delivered its most compelling clue yet in the search for life on Mars. A rock sample called “Sapphire Canyon,” taken from the Bright Angel formation in Jezero Crater, shows unusual mineral patterns known as “leopard spots” that may have formed through microbial activity. While non-biological processesContinue Reading
The House voted to nullify three Bureau of Land Management plans, and critics fear many more could follow. The post Decades of public-lands planning, overturned in a day appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading