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The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives. President Donald Trump has emphasized energy and national security in the Arctic. By Lisa Sorg After nearly…
Rhett A. Butler, Mongabay founder and CEO, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders List, which honors 50 global leaders working to combat the climate crisis. “Mongabay has tended to fly under the radar. We’ve focused on the…
Sea Grant: A Science Partnership Serving America’s Coasts NOAA Heritage Deep Dive:An in-depth look back at Sea Grant. This story was originally published on NOAA’s 200th Anniversary website in 2007. Sea Grant, a program within NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and…
Proponents say the road would connect a remote town with an airport used for medical evacuations. Opponents say it would cause irreparable harm to wildlife and Alaska Native tribes.
The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime conservation areas.
At a press conference in the Capitol, they made the case for regulating greenhouse gases in the interest of youth and future generations. By Carl David Goette-Luciak School-age children carrying signs reading “less pollution, more solution” and “people over polluters”…
Officials say deaths from Vibrio vulnificus exceeding average amid warning over climate-linked case increase Five people in Louisiana have died in 2025 from a flesh-eating bacteria found in warm coastal waters, substantially exceeding the annual average on such deaths, state…
Every year in the Gulf of Panama, between December and April, trade winds from the north push warm surface water away from the coast, allowing cool, nutrient-rich water from the depths to rise, in a process called upwelling. This is…
The continued failure to halt the BR-319 highway cutting through the Brazilian Amazon is an example of the systemic problem identified by Hannah Arendt in her study of the minister of transportation of Nazi Germany, who had administered the movement…
Orla Mining’s project near Elko will be the first open-pit mine to receive an accelerated review following the Trump administration’s push to speed permitting for extraction. Opponents fear the public’s concerns will go unheard. By Wyatt Myskow A proposed gold…