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More acres will be restored under the State Highway Administration’s new permit, but rapidly changing weather conditions leave advocates worried that the actions won’t go far enough. By Aman Azhar A long-awaited stormwater permit for the Maryland State Highway Administration…
Now, the state’s top environmental regulator explains how a record settlement with DuPont will provide $1.2 billion in cleanup costs and help communities get the “forever chemicals” out of their water. Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth From our…
Flooding in northern India and Pakistan has destroyed homes – and hundreds of thousands of acres of crops For days, farmers in the Indian state of Punjab watched the pounding monsoon rains fall and the rivers rise with mounting apprehension.…
Man was brought to shore but died at the scene at Long Reef beach, NSW police say Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A man has died near Dee Why, on Sydney’s northern beaches on…
Chris Wright, who travels to Europe next week to promote American gas, called climate change “not incredibly important.”
Residents hearing about cleanup plans for a long-unused industrial site, set to begin in October, hope the nearly four acres could be added to nearby parkland. By Charna Albert CHICAGO—A vacant lot along the south branch of the Chicago River…
A photojournalism series documenting the environmental and human impacts of overfishing in Southeast Asia has won the 15th Carmignac Photojournalism Award. Nicole Tung, a photographer based in Istanbul, Türkiye, spent nine months in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines documenting the…
COLOMBO — As Sri Lanka grapples with severe agricultural losses caused by wildlife species ranging from primates to peafowl, in March, the government launched a nationwide, five-minute rapid visual census or a RVC, inviting citizens — farmers, students and officials…
The reserve had been proposed to protect Indigenous people living in isolation along the border with Brazil. Indigenous groups called the vote a setback that could endanger inhabitants and expose the forest to logging. By Nicholas Kusnetz Government agencies in…
ABOARD LIFTBOAT ROBERT, North Atlantic (AP) — Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive reservoirs deep under the ocean. Their consortium of more than a dozen nations sank pipes through the seabed…