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An aerial View of vast plantations of palm trees for the production palm oil in Banjarmasin, Kalimantan, Indonesia. Credit: EyesWideOpen/Getty Images

Forests Are Worth More Than Their Carbon, a New Paper Argues

By Keerti Gopal

Employees work on the assembly line at Hon Hai Group's Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China. Foxconn is thought to be a producer of Apple’s watches, but it’s not clear what mix of renewable versus fossil energy it uses in its various factories. Credit: In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images.

Apple Goes a Step Too Far in Claiming a Carbon Neutral Product, a New Report Concludes

By Phil McKenna

Food scraps in a GrowNYC collection bin await pick up by the DSNY. Credit: Jake Bolster

Why New York’s Curbside Composting Program Will Yield Hardly Any Compost

By Jake Bolster

“Aluminum has a really big and positive role to play in the shift to clean energy and transportation and in creating a strong U.S. industry and jobs. But to make good on that promise, aluminum producers really need to reduce pollution and start modernizing and operating under updated rules so that there's less harm to people, the environment and the climate.” —Nadia Steinzor, Environmental Integrity Project. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images.

Crucial for a Clean Energy Economy, the Aluminum Industry’s Carbon Footprint Is Enormous

By Phil McKenna

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro is supporting the Decarbonization Network of Appalachia, one of two groups in the Western Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Virginia region that have been asked by the federal government to submit final applications for so-called hydrogen hubs. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

A Drop in Emissions, and a Jobs Bonanza? Critics Question Benefits of a Proposed Hydrogen Hub for the Appalachian Region

By Jon Hurdle

Gillian Graber, executive director and founder of Protect PT, an organization focused on educating Pennsylvanians living in the state’s southwestern counties on the impacts of fossil fuel drilling on their communities, says repurposed conventional oil wells were never engineered to hold millions of gallons of tocis fracking wastewater. Credit: Scott Goldsmith

EPA Approves Permit for Controversial Fracking Disposal Well in Pennsylvania

By Jake Bolster

Before European colonization of North America there were as many as 2 million gray wolves across North America, but populations have drastically declined. Wolves have been dispersing from Yellowstone National Park since their reintroduction there in the 1990s and biologists estimate that there are now around 7,000 wolves in the lower 48 states. Credit: Bert de Tilly, Wikimedia Commons, Fair Use.

Q&A: How the Wolves’ Return Enhances Biodiversity

Caitlin Kupar prepares to give a cougar kitten a health assessment while visiting a den on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula in June.

Crowding Out Cougars

By Liza Gross,  Photos by Michael Kodas

A dragonfly on a branch at Lake Asboga in the Sarikamis district of Kars, Turkey, in August 2023. Credit: Huseyin Demirci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images.

Like Canaries in a Coal Mine, Dragonflies Signal Threats to Freshwater Ecosystems

By Juanita Gordon

Students, teachers and community supporters in Denver held up signs in 2019 as they took part in a protest outside of the Denver Public Schools administration building to demand equity for students attending classes in excessively hot classrooms. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post.

What High Heat in the Classroom Is Doing to Millions of American Children

Don Crail, whose home burned down in the Dixie Fire, is rushed into an ambulance for a medical issue in Greenville, California in August 2021. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images.

A Medical Toolkit for Climate Resiliency Is Built on the Latest Epidemiology and ER Best Practices

By Danish Bajwa

Some large lobsters are still around. Josiah Mayo stands on board Mike Packard’s F/V J&J with a nine-pound lobster in a photo taken two weeks ago. Credit: Mike Packard/Provincetown Independent.

Lobstermen Face Hypoxia in Outer Cape Waters

By Georgia Hall, Provincetown Independent

A female polar bear grabs some seaweed to feed her cub and herself along the shoreline of the Hudson Bay near Churchill on August 5, 2022. Credit: Olivier Morin / AFP via Getty Images)

New Research Shows Direct Link Between Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Polar Bear Decline

By Bob Berwyn

The Total Culzean platform is pictured on the North Sea, about 45 miles east of the Aberdeen, Europe's self-proclaimed oil capital on Scotland's northeast coast. The oceans absorb about 25 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, and a team of engineers at the University of Pittsburgh has developed new technology to capture carbon dioxide directly from the ocean. Credit: (Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images.

Scientists Find Success With New Direct Ocean Carbon Capture Technology

By Ananya Chetia

Kristen Pogreba-Brown collects data on ticks on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona. Exposures to these ticks can come from household pets and cause bacterial diseases like Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Credit: Photo Courtesy of Kristen Pogreba-Brown.

Could ‘One Health’ be the Optimal Approach for Human, Animal and Environmental Health?

By Emma Peterson

Karen Dourdeville photographs a mature female leatherback turtle stranded on Falmouth Beach on Nantucket Sound after being struck by a vessel. Credit: Mass Audubon/Provincetown Independent.

Warmer Waters Put Sea Turtles on a Collision Course With Humans

By Georgia Hall, Provincetown Independent

In Tarpon Springs, Florida, Makatla Richter wades through flood waters after having to evacuate her home when the flood waters from Hurricane Idalia inundated it on Wednesday. Credit: Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

Florida Pummeled by Catastrophic Storm Surges and Life-Threatening Winds as Hurricane Idalia Makes Landfall

By Amy Green

The Western Meadowlark, state bird of North Dakota, was studied during research on the prevalence of grassland birds in fields of corn and soy beans in North Dakota used for biofuels. Credit: Jon G. Fuller / VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

What’s More Harmful to Birds in North Dakota: Oil and Gas Drilling, or Corn and Soybeans?

By Lydia Larsen

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