Pruitt has started by borrowing personnel from his fellow Oklahoman, Sen. James Inhofe . To call Inhofe a climate change denier is inadequate. Inhofe is a climate change ridiculer. He is the Don Rickles of climate change, and he relishes his role as pantomime villain for climate chang...
The Maryland House of Delegates passed a milestone fracking ban bill Friday with unprecedented bipartisan support. House Bill 1325, which passed by a vote of 97 to 40, would ban hydraulic fracturing statewide. Public opposition to the practice has grown over the past year, as more tha...
This story was originally published by Fusion and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s easy to think that buying organic food helps to support local communities and protect the environment from the heavy hand of big agriculture. But the reality is not so ...
Honey is not vegan , but luckily there are delicious alternatives to replace it in any recipe. Try these vegan alternatives to honey! The honey question is surprisingly contentious in the vegan world, but honey is an animal product and definitely not vegan. Bees do not create honey fo...
Stephen Edelstein Mar 12, 2017 Solar Panels by Flickr user Chandra Marsono Enlarge Photo Even before Elon Musk engineered Tesla's acquisition of SolarCity, the two companies were collaborating. SolarCity was already controlled by Musk, who believes its solar-energy business can be rei...
Are you ready to chase down leaks? Household leaks can waste more than 1 trillion gallons of water annually nationwide, so each year we hunt down the drips during Fix a Leak Week. Mark your calendars for EPA's ninth annual Fix a Leak Week which will take place March 20 through 26, 201...
A bill which would prohibit scientists who had received research grants from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ) from serving on its Science Advisory Board (SAB ) and potentially welcome more industry and corporate representatives to the board has passed through the U.S. House ...
It has become an important country partner in the UN’s REDD+ program. Short for “reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries,” REDD+ promises DRC hundreds of millions of dollars for environmental and development work , coming from the governmen...
Dark chocolate is not a guilty pleasure; it actually comes with many health benefits. Real dark chocolate—not processed and sweetened milk chocolate—is chock-full of incredible health benefits. Some nutrients are destroyed in the process of making chocolate available for the general m...
Best not to feed apple cider directly, but dropping a teaspoon to a tablespoon into your pup’s water bowl could help with digestion. Try adding one tablespoon to a large bowl of water. Just in case your dog doesn’t like the flavor, it’s always good to have another bowl of clean water ...
Americans already had plenty of trouble trusting their government , and that feeling is only mounting over rising ethical concerns within Donald Trump’s administration. After all, if citizens can’t be sure that the White House is adhering to the standard set of codes the executive bra...
“THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS HOLDS that to remain within 1.5 to 2 degrees of warming and thus avoid catastrophic climate change, a rapid shift away from fossil fuels is required over the next three decades. Despite Canada’s ratifying of the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2016, and ...
A small hospital in California's Central Valley is taking a unique approach to health care, allowing spiritual shamans to perform healing ceremonies on patients in conjunction with the hospital staff's more traditional medical care. The Hmong, an ethnic minority in Vietnam, were recru...
Annie Quick Subject Lead - Inequality & Wellbeing History will look back on this decade as one of huge social and economic change. The 2011 riots, the splitting open of our two party system with the rise of smaller parties, swathes of people voting against mainstream economic and poli...
Any climate-related disturbance to food distribution and transport, internationally or domestically, may have significant impacts not only on safety and quality but also on food access. For example, the food transportation system in the United States frequently moves large volumes of ...
It’s been 50 days since Donald Trump became President. A few things worth remembering: It’s been 50 days since Donald Trump became President. Normally the first 100 days are when presidents have the most power to push through their agenda, but so far people have risen up to halt Trump...
Ready to learn some of the basics about climate data? Find out about measuring, modeling, and predicting climate and ways to find and use climate data. The Primer includes information on instruments used to measure weather and climate; how weather observations relate to climate produc...
As in all seabirds, Laysan Albatrosses nest on land. Essentially all individuals of this species nest in large colonies of thousands of breeding pairs in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, though previously unknown colonies have recently been observed on small islands off the coasts of M...
From Pruitts opening statement: https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/0e505de4-aa91-4dcc-ba23-d... "Environmental law, policy, and progress are all based on cooperation: cooperation between the States, cooperation between the States and EPA, and cooperation between the regula...
These streets appear far whiter and whole lot more fluffy than their land-bound cousins. So-called “cloud streets” feature trailing parallel bands of water vapor. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of cloud...
The health claim is not speculation. Grass-fed beef and dairy products are leaner, but more importantly, lower in omega-6 fats that are linked to heart disease. Grass-fed meat and dairy products also are higher in beneficial omega-3 fats and conjugated linoleic acids. Both reduce the ...
Forests not only serve as an essential carbon reserve, they also provide livelihoods, subsistence and income for more than 1.6 billion of the global poor[6] . GEF knows that poor rural women are particularly dependent on forest resources for their subsistence, and they also have uniqu...
Ask GrubHub to Take Shark Fins Off the Menu! Sign our petition to tell GrubHub to take shark fin off the menu now – before the ocean’s most iconic predators disappear.
available in the stunning sculptural art installation, birds can choose from a range of shapes and sizes of boxes to use for shelter, nesting or feeding spaces. The diverse complex of bird boxes were designed to reflect the architecture in the nearby Georgian terraces and 1960s flats ...
Although clean energy projects often bring long-term savings, they also typically require an up-front capital investment. To benefit from clean energy without negatively impacting short-term finances, colleges and universities can take advantage of a wide variety of options for financ...
Every year starting around March 15, migratory songbirds begin their arduous journeys back north to their summer nesting sites. These songbirds travel at night, navigating by the earth’s magnetic pull as well as through “maps” made up of constellations. They are a familiar sight, and ...
