Environment & Sustainability

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Coal Miners and Advocates Plead With Trump to Enforce Black Lung Rule

In a rally outside the U.S. Department of Labor, miners and their advocates stressed the need to limit silica exposure and protect workers from irreversible health impacts. By Aidan Hughes Coal miners, their family members and union representatives rallied outside…

Losing Nemo: In the Red Sea, clownfish vanish as anemones bleach

When Morgan Bennett-Smith descended to a familiar reef in the central Red Sea in September 2023, he expected to find the same tagged anemones and resident clownfish he had been monitoring for months. Instead, he found a ghostly landscape: every…

First assessment of UNESCO sites finds widespread climate impacts

Nearly all of UNESCO’s more than 2,200 World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and Geoparks have already endured climate extremes over the past two decades. That’s according to initial data from the first ever global biodiversity and climate assessment unveiled at…