Tag: environment

For over a decade, the Nabarima has sat anchored in the Gulf of Paria, an enclosed stretch of sea between Venezuela and the island of Trinidad. Photo courtesy of Fishermen and Friends ...

The United States has a meat problem. The average American will eat about 220 pounds of meat this year, including around 60 pounds of beef. The cattle needed to support ...

Climate change and environmental degradation don’t affect all Americans equally. Extreme heat, flooding, drought, and other consequences of our warming planet tend to hit low-income and nonwhite communities hardest. And ...

In September, the United Nations released a report indicting world leaders for failing to halt biodiversity collapse. Despite setting ambitious targets in 2010 to protect endangered ecosystems, we’ve lost a ...

On April 20, 2010, an explosion at the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig released over 130 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It was the biggest ...

The U.S. needs to repair the environmental damage that the Trump administration has wrought, both within the country and across the worldBox Death Hollow Wilderness, Colorado Plateau. Credit: Witold Skrypczak Getty ...

Samsung is trolling Apple on social media for removing the power adapter from the iPhone retail box. Last week at the iPhone 12 reveal, Apple announced the box of the ...

Well that, as Ron Burgundy would say, escalated quickly. China's foreign ministry is accusing the Trump administration of "major retrogression" on climate and being an environmental "troublemaker."Why it matters: China's ...

Media reports out of Japan suggest that the government is poised to announce a plan to flush the radioactive water used to cool the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant back ...

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was a Saturday night in September when 160 or so ...