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Environment May 24, 2023

'Leap of faith:' Alaska pursues carbon offset market while embracing oil

Alaska's push to become a bigger player in the clean energy market is in the spotlight this week at a conference convened by its Republican governor, even as the state continues to embrace new fossil fuel production, including ...

Social Sciences May 9, 2023

Why rural Canadians need public transit just as urgently as suburbanites

Transportation within and between Canadian communities is frustrating at best. At worst it's impossible.

Environment Apr 3, 2023

Gulf offshore oil and gas production has double the climate impact as inventories report

By directly measuring greenhouse gas emissions from an airplane flying over the Gulf of Mexico, a University of Michigan-led team found that the nation's largest offshore fossil fuel production basin has twice the climate ...

Environment Mar 17, 2023

The Willow Arctic oil drilling project—the latest battle in a long fight over Alaska's North Slope

For more than six decades, Alaska's North Slope has been a focus of intense controversy over oil development and wilderness protection, with no end in sight. Willow field, a 600-million-barrel, US$8 billion oil project recently ...

Environment Mar 15, 2023

Lawsuit filed in bid to halt Alaska oil drilling project

Environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to halt a controversial oil drilling project in Alaska approved by the Biden administration.

Environment Mar 14, 2023

Alaska oil project approval adds yet another climate concern

The Biden administration's approval of a massive oil development in northern Alaska commits the U.S. to yet another decadeslong crude project even as scientists urgently warn that only a halt to more fossil fuel emissions ...

Ecology Feb 8, 2023

Study finds caribou have been using same Arctic calving grounds for 3,000 years

Caribou have been using the same Arctic calving grounds for more than 3,000 years, according to a new study by the University of Cincinnati. An epic migration leads caribou to same part of refuge to give birth every spring.

Environment Dec 23, 2022

Penalties, corruption and legislation are failing to deter harmful gas flaring in Nigeria, study shows

Legislation is failing to end gas flaring in Nigeria which is harming and environment and people's health, a new study warns.

Environment Nov 29, 2022

To fight the climate crisis, we need to stop expanding offshore drilling for oil and gas

Environmental disaster struck the shores of Peru on Jan. 15, 2022, when Spanish energy company Repsol spilled 12,000 barrels of crude oil into the Bay of Lima after its tanker ruptured. The spill endangered 180,000 birds ...

Social Sciences Nov 10, 2022

Environmental justice has the White House's attention—but funding won't immediately solve deeply entrenched problems

A new office within the Environmental Protection Agency is bringing increased attention to a once-obscure concept: environmental justice.

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