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The court invoked Ecuador’s rights of nature laws in halting a highway project to protect the Jambato harlequin toad, requiring the government to prove construction won’t drive the species to extinction. By Katie Surma An Ecuadorian court has blocked construction…
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Amy Jo Scarino Lidar Data Analyst, Contractor, Lidar Sciences Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center About Amy Jo Scarino, scientific analyst and programmer in the airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) group, has been working as a contractor (SSAI…
MERANGIN, Indonesia — There wasn’t much Aris Adrianto felt he could do when the gold miners’ heavy vehicles broke into Bukit Gajah Berani, here in this remote pocket of Sumatra’s Merangin district. “They just kept going, like they were afraid…
A year after the Eaton fire, residents returning to Altadena confront lingering contamination and little official clarity One year on from the Eaton fire, long after the vicious winds that sent embers cascading from the San Gabriel mountains and the…
How might we prevent sea-level rise? Satellite-based radar, solar-powered drones, robot submarines and lab-based ‘artificial glaciers’ could all play a role Sea levels are rising faster than at any point in human history, and for every foot that waters rise,…
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has announced what it describes as a sweeping, science-based effort to reassess environmental governance, zoning and corporate accountability in the wake of floods and landslides that killed more than 1,100 people across the island of…
Efforts to save the Topeka shiner have restored hundreds of oxbow lakes across Iowa. Now, those wetlands are helping to improve the state’s water quality. By Anika Jane Beamer The minnow U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ecologists pulled from the…
Let’s establish some baselines. Texas is responsible for more greenhouse-gas emissions than Saudi Arabia or the global maritime industry. Its oil, gas and petrochemical operations discharge tens of millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into the air each year, comprising…
The Carbon Removers, based near Dumfries, will use the funding to expand its operations across Europe.