By Kristin Toussaint, Fast Company The Trump administration and Elon Musk are reportedly taking aim at NOAA, the agency responsible for the National Weather Service and many other crucial functions. The Trump administration and Elon Musk have spent the past several weeks upending the federal government. After essentially shutting down …
Trump’s EPA to prioritize AI, lobbyists and staff cuts in ‘mission to traumatize’
By Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor, The Guardian New EPA administrator Lee Zeldin’s pillars pledge to help auto industry and have no mention of the climate crisis, A new and starkly different vision for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been outlined by the Trump administration – one that involves mass …
Big Oil’s Record-Breaking Spending on Lobbying Last Session Hobbled Key California Climate Measures
By Liza Gross, Inside Climate News One bill that would have required oil companies to help pay for damages from climate-driven disasters failed and another that would levy heavy fines on refineries that release toxic air contaminants was watered down. A view of the Martinez Refining Company in Martinez, Calif. …
Can communities living side by side with wildlife beat Africa’s national parks at conservation?
By Phoebe Weston, The Guardian Across the continent, millions of hectares of land are being used and run by local people coexisting with wildlife in spaces where both can thrive. Africa’s first national park was created 100 years ago by the Belgian colonial state in the Congo, and since then …
The far right is going … green?
By Benji Jones, Vox Something strange is happening inside the environmental movement. Ben Hickey for Vox “In my view, climate change is real and it is an existential threat.” “My inclination is to take dams down.” “The toxic chemicals that pollute our air, our water, our soils end up in our own bodies. They ruin …
Meet the new neighbors: 7.5 million chickens and their mountains of manure
By Kenny Torrella, Vox A sickening stench and hordes of flies: What it’s like to live near a mega factory farm. Joe Gough for Vox MALCOM, IOWA — When Carolyn Bittner moved to Malcom, Iowa, in 2008 to serve as a pastor at two churches, she had no idea the …
Escalating armed conflict is most urgent threat for world in 2025, say global leaders
By Heather Stewart, The Guardian World Economic Forum says responses from experts in business, politics and academia also highlight climate crisis. ‘State-based armed conflict’ was the concern cited most by those surveyed by the World Economic Forum. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images Global leaders have said that escalating armed conflict is the …
California Rice Fields Offer Threatened Migratory Waterbirds a Lifeline
By Liza Gross, The Guardian Conservation groups are working with Central Valley farmers to restore critical habitat for wetland birds struggling to subsist on a fraction of their historic wintering grounds. But finding the right spots is challenging. Sandhill cranes fly in for the night at the Woodbridge Ecological Reserve …
NOAA chief defends agency’s weather, climate, other work
By Andrew Freedman, Axios NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad speaks at an event at Florida International University in Miami on Aug. 1, 2022. Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images NOAA administrator Rick Spinrad is leaving the federal atmosphere and oceans agency at an uncertain, increasingly stormy time. Why it matters: In an …
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ taint rural California drinking water, far from known sources
By Hannah Norman, Grist PFAS chemicals have unexpectedly turned up in well water in rural farmland, far from any industrial areas, airports, or military bases. Juana Valle stands next to the well on her property. Researchers have found worrisome levels of chemicals called PFAS in her well water. Hannah Norman / …