Tag: environment

Photo: ChameleonsEye (Shutterstock)There are plenty of good reasons to hate leaf blowers: They’re loud, they’re gross, and they’re as bad for your health as they are for the environment. It’s ...

"Instead of extracting value from nature and transforming it into wealth, we are using the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source," founder Yvon Choulnard said. File Photo by longtaildog/Shutterstock ...

Photo courtesy: Nicholas Doherty/Unsplash Massachusetts’ governor signed into law a climate change bill that’s meant to bring the state closer to its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The bill ...

There was nothing inevitable about the Lyme epidemic. Then humans disrupted the environment and fueled an era of tick-borne diseases. July 25, 2022 Randall Anderson was 9 years old when ...

A massive survey of the world's oceans has uncovered 5000 viruses that are new to science, some of which are involved in carbon capture on the sea floor. The first ...

the chemicals have contaminated lakes, streams, rivers, and coastal zones including Cape Cod

It’s well established that the state of U.S. plastics recycling is dismal. But plastic waste experts, who have long cautioned that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) purported recycling rate was ...

Globally, the dairy industry emits around 3.4% of total CO2e emissions. According to the FAO, the biggest component of those emissions is methane.This is not good news for climate change, ...

Hybrid and remote work has become a mainstay since 2020. While there is a desire to be back in the office, there’s also a desire to work from home on ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has discovered unsafe levels of uranium in the water. The researchers published their findings in the journal Lancet Planetary Health. They discovered the radioactive element ...