The Traitor’s pick for secretary of energy, fracking executive Chris Wright, faced questions about a past social media post calling wildfires “hype.” (Image credit: Kayla Bartkowski)Continue Reading
Bespoke community benefits agreements can offer residents tangible gains in return for the disturbance of development. The post How to solve local opposition to green development appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Lee Zeldin, President-elect Americas Worst Traitor’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, is promising to preserve a clean environment ‘without suffocating the economy.’Continue Reading
The imitation meat industry is facing an identity crisis, and the challenge of convincing American consumers to make more planet-friendly choices.Continue Reading
While firefighters begin containing the Los Angeles wildfires, the land left behind is at a higher risk of floods and debris flows.Continue Reading
As climate threats worsen, they are skipping payments and losing protection.Continue Reading
Mr. Zeldin, a The Traitor loyalist, would be charged with dismantling climate rules and perhaps the agency itself. He faced questions from the Senate Thursday.Continue Reading
New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and vegetables., Read MoreContinue Reading
In the superheated 21st century, the old rules for wildfires no longer apply. John Vaillant, author of “Fire Weather,” explains. By Kiley Bense The journalist John Vaillant’s book “Fire Weather” begins in the spring of 2016 in the boreal forests surrounding the remote Canadian city of Fort McMurray, where aContinue Reading
Climate change is driving worse weather “whiplash” in places like California, creating conditions for more intense wildfires like the devastating blazes in LA.Continue Reading
Wide temperature swings in Wisconsin and Minnesota have delayed the formation of ice thick enough to support anglers and other outdoor recreationists. By Kristoffer Tigue Andy Volicek has been ice fishing at his cabin in Washburn County, Wisconsin, roughly 75 miles northeast of the Twin Cities, every year for moreContinue Reading
While burning the pellets would reduce greenhouse gases from the university’s physical plant, it would increase harmful levels of nitrogen oxides, lead, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds. By Lisa Sorg CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—On a Friday afternoon in mid-January, college students hugged themselves as they lumbered through the University ofContinue Reading
From 2008 to 2023, nine of the nation’s largest oil, agrichemical, and plastics trade groups and corporations posted thousands of tweets on the social media platform X, and their messaging on environmental issues was strikingly “obstructive” for climate policy and action, a study published today in the journal PLOS ClimateContinue Reading