In Yellowstone, Migratory Bison Reawaken a Landscape
A recent study hints at the potential benefits of restoring bison to an ecosystem.
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Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.
The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere. By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, and Mark Olalde, ProPublica…
Peru to Consider New Reserve for Uncontacted Indigenous People
An estimated 7,000 Indigenous people live in voluntary isolation in the country’s Amazon forests, but they face increased threats from logging, mining, oil and gas drilling and drug trafficking. By Nicholas Kusnetz This week, Peruvian officials are set to consider…
Activists Decry New Border Wall’s Impact on Wildlife
Construction in Arizona’s San Rafael Valley grasslands will prevent cross-border movement of endangered jaguars and other animals. By Anita Snow, National Catholic Reporter This story was originally published by National Catholic Reporter.
Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow
The rats scurried into the shed. Flinching at the sound of a horde of tiny claws scratching at the ground, Migdalia Mass Llorens kept vigil over her sleeping family huddled together under a single blanket. The 35-year-old mother of three…
American Samoa says no to deep-sea mining. The Trump administration might do it anyway.
In early August, in the village of Utulei on the eastern shore of Tatuila, the largest of seven islands that make up American Samoa, more than two dozen local residents gathered in an auditorium. They were there to learn about…
Can offshore wind survive the Trump administration?
The first person to hoist a sail predates recorded history; humans have been harnessing the wind for thousands of years. Nevertheless, when the first windmill was first used to produce electricity 1887, it was immediately rejected as the work of…
Shell scraps construction of biofuels plant in Rotterdam
Oil firm, which paused project in 2024, will not restart work because facility deemed ‘insufficiently competitive’ Shell has axed the construction of its biofuels plant in the Netherlands, ending what would have been one of the biggest converters of waste…
Abandoned Queensland coal borehole found to be emitting 10,000 cars’ worth of greenhouse gas
The hole – about 100 metres deep – was not visible from the surface – and there could be thousands more like it Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or…
This was the hottest summer on record. If it happens again next year, Britain’s ecosystems won’t cope | Lucy Jones
A future of extreme heatwaves, drought and collapsing habitats awaits if we continue to ignore the danger signs What does British summertime mean to you? Blackberries? Picnics? Festivals? Ticks? This summer has been the hottest on record in the UK.…