During Senate Confirmation EPA Nominees Are Asked if They Can Remain Uncontaminated by Scott Pruitt
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt reacts while testifying before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies on budget on Capitol Hill last month.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday for two nominees to serve in the Environmental Protection Agency as…
A Green Alternative to Cremation: Dissolving Your Corpse in Water and Lye
Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Samantha Sieber’s grandfather had a traditional American burial. His body was embalmed, put in a metal casket, and laid to rest at a cemetery, where…
How an Ancient Extinction Foreshadowed the Planet’s Future
NASA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In January, I stood in a ditch in the middle of nowhere in South Africa, and the summer sun beat down as I stared at a heap of grape soda-colored rocks.…
Trump’s EPA Greenlighted a Pesticide That Harms Kids’ Brains. Hawaii Just Said, “Hell No.”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the early months of the Trump Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency reversed an Obama-era proposal to ban the widely used insecticide chlorpyrifos, which has been linked by ample research to inhibited brain development in children. “Hawaii’s efforts have set a precedent, and we hope this will pave…
New Study Shows the Devastating Effect Climate Change Is Having on Antarctica
Sea ice melting off the shores of islands in Antarctica. David Schultz/Mint Images/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Antarctica’s sheets of ice are melting at a rate faster than ever before and raising global sea levels by “almost a centimeter,” an international group of scientists concluded Thursday in a study…
Scientists Find a “Whole Lot Of Bad News” in Latest Report on Rising CO2 Levels
Michal Fludra/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has never been higher, scientists at a prominent Hawaii observatory announced last week. This was the most recent environmental milestone in a year that has been marked by the Trump administration dismantling many Obama-era environmental policy initiatives. CO2 is especially…