Microplastics have turned up in the remote Arctic Ocean, which means they’re...
News stories about plastic pollution tend to focus on the large patches of plastics in the world’s oceans, yet scientists are finding microscopic bits of plastic just about everywhere they look,...
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Chernobyl has become a refuge for wildlife 33 years after the nuclear accident
Reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered an explosion during a technical test on April 26, 1986. As a result of the accident, in the then Soviet Union, more than 400 times more...
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Is Thwaites Glacier doomed? Scientists race against time to find out.
Peter Sheehan, an oceanographer on the Nathaniel B. Palmer, was one of the first people on Earth to get this view of Thwaites Glacier — the part that juts out to sea.He’s pored over plenty of Google...
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Inside the long war to protect plastic
This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity. This is the first in three-part series about the battle over plastic. New York’s Suffolk County had a trash problem. Facing...
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Environmental emergency declared in Mexico’s smog-choked capital
Mexico’s government ordered schools in and around Mexico City to be closed on Thursday in an extraordinary step taken due to elevated levels of pollution in the smog-wreathed capital.Smoke from nearby...
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As the climate changes, migratory birds are losing their way
Every spring and fall, a journey of thousands of miles begins, as migrating birds find their way between breeding and overwintering grounds.It’s an amazing phenomenon that naturalist Kenn Kaufman...
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America's windiest spot looks to harness the ocean winds with some British help
When Joseph Massi enrolled at Bristol Community College, an hour’s drive south of Boston, he chose to major in a brand new field of study — offshore wind power.“It’s the new future. It’s where...
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This submarine’s historic tour under Thwaites Glacier will help scientists...
Oceanographer Anna Wåhlin paced across the bridge of the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker like a nervous parent waiting for a teenager out past curfew.The fiery orange submarine, which she named Ran...
View ArticleA UN report says Earth faces 'unprecedented' threat to biodiversity
The outlook for biodiversity on Earth is grim, according to a new United Nations report.UN scientists warn that roughly 1 million plant and animal species are on the verge of extinction due to human...
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'Hi, I want a job in Antarctica': Meet the first female researchers to blaze...
In the spring of 1969, 19-year-old Ohio State sophomore Terry Tickhill Terrell saw an article in the school newspaper about a graduate student who had gone to Antarctica with a research group. She...
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Your ‘recycled’ laptop may be incinerated in an illegal Asian scrapyard
They call it “e-waste recycling.” But what happens inside Asia’s underground scrapyards looks more like crude alchemy.Men and women, faces swaddled in cloth, hunch over steel furnaces. They melt down...
View ArticleUS should shift military funds to climate change fixes, says POTUS hopeful...
On a recent campaign stop in Exeter, New Hampshire, Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard greeted nearly everyone with a handshake and a warm "Aloha."At age 38, Congresswoman Gabbard has...
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11,000-year-old Turkish town about to be submerged forever
The town of Hasankeyf, Turkey, will soon be only a memory.From her front door, Fatima Salkan has a sweeping view of the fruit trees, historic ruins and tidy stone compounds that run along this stretch...
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Beaches are becoming safer for baby sea turtles, but threats await them in...
On beaches from North Carolina to Texas and throughout the wider Caribbean, one of nature’s great seasonal events is underway. Adult female sea turtles are crawling out of the ocean, digging deep holes...
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Washington activist wins a Goldman Environmental Prize for defeating a...
When the Tesoro-Savage oil terminal project threatened to bring polluted air and the risk of devastating oil spills to her hometown of Vancouver, Washington, community organizer Linda Garcia got right...
View ArticleJulián Castro makes climate change a central theme of his presidential campaign
Julián Castro, a former mayor of San Antonio and secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama, is looking to become the first Hispanic president of the United States. Part of...
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On a journey to Antarctica, a New Orleans chef awakens to the threat of...
Jack Gilmore, 23, had never left the US before he worked on a research vessel as a cook during a two-month expedition to Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica this past winter.“It was my goal to bring...
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A conservationist helped protect the Cook Islands from overfishing, and won a...
Jacqueline Evans, a marine conservationist from the Cook Islands, has received a Goldman Environmental Prize for helping to lead a campaign to protect her island country’s waters.The Cook Islands is a...
View ArticleNew York City gets nation's first congestion pricing plan
Beginning in 2021, getting around Manhattan should become a little easier: New York City has passed a new congestion pricing scheme that will charge fees to people who bring vehicles to Midtown and...
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Climate change is intensifying food shocks
The rain and floods that have plagued the Midwest since March have wreaked havoc on agriculture. In Nebraska alone, farmers lost an estimated $440 million of cattle. They’re still recovering from the...
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