By Jessica Kutz, The 19th A new report shows a growing gender gap among people who vote with environmental issues in mind. A women holds her daughter as she fills out her ballot at a polling site in November 2022, in Brooklyn, New York. (John Minchillo/AP) A new report from the Environmental Voter …
Clean energy is big business. These 5 threats loom large.
By Umair Irfan, Vox Where current policies and trends could do real damage to climate progress. An offshore wind turbine generates electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm near Block Island, Rhode Island, in 2022. | John Moore/Getty Images According to the American Clean Power Association, 93 percent of the new energy …
Tillage reductions lead to dramatic rise in crop yields and soil organic carbon levels
By Addison DeHaven, Phys.Org A new study from South Dakota State University reveals reductions in tillage intensity have led to an increase in soil organic carbon levels and an increase in corn and soybean yields. Corn and soybean yields have increased dramatically since 2000, according to a new study from South Dakota …
Read, think, act: Meet three booksellers guiding people through the climate crisis
By Lottie Limb, EuroNews From an old coal barge in Leeds, to picturesque Shaftesbury and radical Edinburgh, UK booksellers discuss bookselling during the climate crisis. “Books are a comfort, they are a way of seeing things differently,” says Victoria Bonner, co-owner of Hold Fast bookshop in Leeds. Her bookshop is …
About 15% of world’s cropland polluted with toxic metals, say researchers
By Sinead Campbell, The Guardian Scientists sound the alarm over substances such as arsenic and lead contaminating soils and entering food systems. Farmers divert a stream contaminated by waste water discharged from nearby mining industries into farm fields in Dongchuan, China. Photograph: Reuters About one sixth of global cropland is contaminated …
Researchers make stunning discovery after fish disappear from bustling waterway: ‘A big deal’
By Simon Sage, The Cool Down “There’s a lot of potential to have more.” Photo Credit: iStock Habitat restoration efforts have led to the reappearance of wild salmon in one California creek, according to Phys.org. A University of California, Davis, study identified the genealogy of Chinook salmon returning to Putah Creek …
‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future
By Steve Rose, The Guardian John Todd’s eco-machine stunned experts by using natural organisms to remove toxic waste from a Cape Cod lagoon. Forty years on, he wants to build a fleet of them to clean up the oceans. John Todd remembers the moment he knew he was really on …
‘Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles
By Katharine Gammon, The Guardian Work continues on the Wallis Annenberg wildlife crossing over the 101 freeway in Los Angeles county. Photograph: Caltrans A wildlife crossing across the 101 freeway will connect two parts of the Santa Monica mountains for animals. Above the whirring of 300,000 cars each day on …
Developers See Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal as an Alluring New Waterfront. But for Years, It Stunk
By Jordan Gass-Pooré, Inside Climate News The EPA has been working for 12 years on two huge underground tanks to keep sewage overflows from polluting the canal. The city’s DEP, which for years has done little to speed the process, announced late last month that it’s now ahead of schedule. …
Should Oil and Gas Drilling Expand in This Biodiverse National Forest? The Public Overwhelmingly Says No
By Lee Hedgepeth, Inside Climate News Conecuh National Forest is a biodiversity hotspot. Could oil and gas development put that at risk? A top down view of the diverse ecosystem inside Conecuh National Forest, located in southeast Alabama, along its border with Florida. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News CONECUH NATIONAL …