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Earth Sciences Feb 28, 2024

The importance of critical minerals should not condone their extraction at all costs, says researcher

Global warming is real and climate change is worsening day-by-day with raging forest fires, unseasonably warm winters and flooding disasters taking place across Canada. Meanwhile, the carbon-zero transition required to move ...

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 5, 2024

Washington state drinking water, hydropower at risk as Pacific Northwest snowpack shrinks

At Diablo Lake, North Cascades National Park the clouds lift by noon and wind screams down the mountainsides. Temperatures sunk to zero as Jon Riedel, a retired geologist with the National Park Service, stood on a ridge above ...

Environment Jan 23, 2024

New research analyzes state violence in India's coal war

Police, who were deployed to block villagers from protesting a power plant on coastal wetlands in India 14 years ago, shot at protesters, killing three and injuring hundreds. Two years later on the other side of the country, ...

Plants & Animals Jan 22, 2024

Fixing the cormorant disaster on the Columbia: 'How could this have come out any worse?'

White streaks of bird waste paint the steel trusses beneath the Astoria-Megler Bridge over the Columbia River. Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests. Black birds roost on the ...

Plants & Animals Dec 19, 2023

Washington sets aside 2,000 acres of forest for conservation, cancels timber sale near Elwha River

Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz has announced a proposal to conserve some 2,000 acres of state forest land.

Ecology Dec 15, 2023

Biden administration promises $1 billion more for salmon, clean energy, but punts on Lower Snake River dam removal

In a major agreement over the operations of hydropower dams in the Columbia River Basin, the federal government has promised to spend $1 billion to help restore wild salmon, assist in the build-out of new tribal clean energy ...

Ecology Dec 11, 2023

Endangered species list grows by 2,000. Climate change is part of the problem

Climate change is worsening the planet's biodiversity crises, making environments more deadly for thousands of species and accelerating the precipitous decline in the number of plants and animals on Earth, according to an ...

Agriculture Dec 3, 2023

Maghreb farmers embrace drones to fight climate change

A drone buzzed back and forth above rows of verdant orange trees planted near Nabeul, eastern Tunisia.

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