Tag: environment

You’ve probably heard by now about how microfibers from your synthetic clothes—like yoga pants and stretchy socks—slough off when you do the laundry and wind up in the environment because ...

In early June 2011, NOAA Fisheries researchers and colleagues placed satellite tags on 26 loggerhead sea turtles in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. The tagging was part of ongoing studies of loggerhead ...

img source: unsplash.com Some of the measures put in place to assist in minimizing the spread of the coronavirus included asking people to stay indoors. Since the virus became widespread, ...

Before Hurricane Laura made landfall as a Category 4 storm, meteorologists warned that it would hit industrial coastal cities like Port Arthur, Texas, especially hard. Public officials along the Texas-Louisiana ...

Fire is a natural element of many landscapes of the American West. It provides periodic ecological resets, infuses the soil with nutrients, allows the growth of new vegetation, and rejuvenates ...

A burning area of Amazon rainforest reserve, south of Novo Progresso in Para state, Brazil on Aug. 16. Photographer: Carl De Souza/AFP via Getty Images Photographer: Carl De Souza/AFP via ...

Photographer: Leigh Vogel/Polaris Photographer: Leigh Vogel/Polaris California and other states sued to block the Trump administration from easing requirements that agencies consider environmental consequences when approving new oil wells, pipelines, ...

As Hurricane Laura bears down on Louisiana and Texas and half a million people flee what forecasters are calling an “unsurvivable storm surge,” environmentalists are also worried about something else: ...

Republicans didn’t mention rising temperatures in their first two nights of convention programming. They didn’t even call it a hoax. Climate change doesn’t appear in Trump’s bullet pointed second term ...

Eleven days after his father’s administration cleared the way for development of a massive copper and gold mine in the wilds of Alaska, Donald Trump Jr. called for it to ...