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- Climate change has become one of the leading risks to food security, with droughts, floods and hurricanes expected to result in production and price volatility, a report from the U.N.’s agriculture agencies has warned.
- Student efforts to stop global warming gain steam as fears about the future grow.
- Yellow perch are a staple of firehouse and church fish fries, and the delicate fish on that dish might once have lived in the Great Lakes. But warmer lake waters in a changing climate threaten the yellow perch population as well as other popular...
- Outflow from a treatment facility that handles fracking waste in Pennsylvania left radioactive hotspots and elevated levels of contaminants in sediment near and downstream from a discharge pipe, the study found.
- China for years has welcomed the world's trash, creating a roaring business in recycling and livelihoods for tens of thousands. Now authorities are clamping down on an industry that has helped the rich West dispose of its waste but also added to the...
- Officials say the government shutdown in the U.S. will disrupt monitoring of air and water quality, and will delay the new rules for penalising polluters.
- Scientists are quick to point out that no single fire season can be attributed to changes in the global climate, but as summers in the western half of the United States become drier and warmer, the chances of bigger, longer smokier fire seasons is...
- Even after being forced to cut production last month because of high lead emissions, a Vernon battery recycler has continued to violate limits on releases of the potent neurotoxin, regulators said Wednesday.
- Problems have worsened of late for Brazil's indigenous peoples, the groups say, as an agricultural boom has increased the congressional lobbying power of the ruralista, which represents landowners whose interests often clash with those of the tribes.
One-fifth of U.S. population lives near traffic where air pollution levels are elevated, study says.
Nearly one-fifth of the U.S. population lives near a high-volume road where pollution levels are typically elevated from vehicle exhaust, a new study says.- They carry your most precious cargo, sometimes for hours a day; but school buses have a hidden danger that's threatening your child's health. "I think everybody needs to be worried," says James Kenny, MD, a retired pulmonologist who's studied air...
- A new law promoting community gardens and small farms lets municipalities lower property taxes on plots of 3 acres or less if owners dedicate them to growing food for at least 5 years.
- According to Dante, the Styx is not just a river but a vast, deathly swamp filling the entire fifth circle of hell. Perhaps the staff of New Scientist will see it when our time comes but, until then, Lake Natron in northern Tanzania does a pretty...
- As Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress continue to squabble over which party is to blame for the first government shutdown since 1995, the impact is already being felt in all federal agencies involved with climate- and climate change-...
- There’s a mystery at the very bottom of the Great Lakes food web. Phytoplankton – the algae that are food for plankton which in turn feed fish – are behaving strangely. They’re surrounded by a nutrient they need to grow. But for some reason, they’re...
- The Arctic push is happening because the Russian oil industry is looking offshore as its staple fields in the marshes of west Siberia peter out, just as falling output on land in Texas sent American oil companies into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1970s.
- Scientists found elevated levels of radioactivity in river water at a site where treated fracking wastewater from oil and gas production sites in western Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale is released into a creek.
- Outflow from a treatment facility that handles fracking waste in Pennsylvania left radioactive hotspots and elevated levels of contaminants in sediment near and downstream from a discharge pipe, the study found.
- In the weeks since President Barack Obama announced his plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants, attorneys and policy analysts for the power industry are questioning the administration’s technology claims.
- From ‘Frankenfoods’ to ‘farm-a-lytics,’ Monsanto Co. is slowly changing the locus of its business. Monsanto has just bought a San Francisco start-up called Climate Corp. for almost $1 billion. It sells hyper-local weather data farmers can use to...
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