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Environment May 8, 2024

Walking in African cities can be a miserable experience: Study shows planners ignore needs of pedestrians

African cities aren't welcoming places for pedestrians. Yet walking is free and, given the shortage of decent public transport, it's often the only way for people to move around. More than 70% of Africa's urban population ...

Environment May 6, 2024

Calif. state Sen. Blakespear says coastal railroad is at a climate crossroads

A coordinated, multiagency effort is essential to save Southern California's coastal rail corridor from sea-level rise and erosion, state Sen. Catherine Blakespear warned last week.

Environment Apr 22, 2024

Minnesota House lawmakers push forward fertilizer tax to clean up contaminated wells

Minnesota would tax farmers $0.40 per ton of fertilizer to help test and clean up thousands of private wells contaminated with agricultural runoff under a bill that cleared the House's main agricultural committee.

Environment Apr 12, 2024

Environmental groups grateful but vigilant after Key Bridge collapse

When Alice Volpitta watched the video of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, and the trucks tumbling into the Patapsco River in the darkness, she thought first for the people who had fallen.

Environment Apr 10, 2024

Superfund plan for Columbia River sparks debate in Northwest

It would create one of the largest Superfund sites in America and the first in which most of the toxic pollution comes from another country. But those are not the only unique aspects of an EPA proposal to add the upper reaches ...

Environment Mar 5, 2024

Iconic Old West tumbleweeds roll in and blanket parts of suburban Salt Lake City

The gnarled icon of the Old West—ominously featured in movies as gunslingers square off on dusty streets and townsfolk shake behind curtained windows—rolled in over the weekend and kept rolling until blanketing some homes ...

Earth Sciences Feb 26, 2024

'Like a World War II battlefield': How one of Northern California's most polluted properties may finally be cleaned up

The legacies of California's 1849 Gold Rush and the relentless search for gold that continued decades later are well known: the rise of San Francisco, statehood, Wells Fargo, Levi's jeans, and a Bay Area football team named ...

Environment Feb 26, 2024

How one of Northern California's most polluted properties may finally be cleaned up

The legacies of California's 1849 Gold Rush and the relentless search for gold that continued decades later are well known: the rise of San Francisco; statehood; Wells Fargo; Levi's jeans; a Bay Area football team named after ...

Environment Feb 8, 2024

Southern California's smog-cutting plan is failing and regulators would rather point fingers than fix it

Government officials whose job it is to clean the nation's worst smog from Southern California's air should be embarrassed. Instead of working together to cut lung-damaging ozone pollution, they are wasting time pointing ...

Environment Feb 8, 2024

Navy looks to test drinking wells for potential 'forever chemicals' from Chesapeake base

Nicole Jones read a poster's laundry list of health effects from drinking water contaminated by chemicals found in firefighting foam: high cholesterol, changes in liver enzymes, preeclampsia in pregnant women, low infant ...

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