March 9, 2020 Sea turtles eat plastic because it smells like food, study shows New research reveals that some sea turtles confuse the smell of plastic with food.
March 4, 2020 Greenhouse emissions would have to drop by four times targets to avoid 'climate disaster,' study claims A decade of inactivity means that countries worldwide must do far more to avoid "climate disaster," an alarming new study claims.
March 4, 2020 Air pollution causing 'pandemic,' shaving 'nearly three years' from people's lives A new study says air pollution has become a "pandemic" and is cutting "nearly three years" off people's lives.
March 2, 2020 Coronavirus outbreak in China has one unexpected side-effect In an effort to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has affected more than 80,000 and killed more than 3,000 people in China, the country shuttered factories and quarantined many of its citizens. However, as the country's factories slowly return online from the aftermath, there has been one unexpected side effect to the decline in economic activity. Pollution has vanished.
February 28, 2020 Heritage Foundation researcher: Green New Deal 'would devastate the economy,' hit working families hardest Democrats' proposed Green New Deal (GND) could end up costing households much more than they bargained for, Heritage Foundation Research Fellow Joel Griffith said Friday.
February 26, 2020 Squirrels are now using plastic to build nests, shocking photos show A photographer has taken startling pictures of a squirrel appearing to use plastic bags in an effort to build a nest.
February 20, 2020 Climate change and pollution could eliminate nearly all coral reefs by end of century Coral reefs around the world are dying and scientists are looking at a variety of ways to save these endangered structures, including growing them in labs and trying to make them pollution-resistant.
February 17, 2020 Fort Lauderdale mayor seeks state, federal aid after 211M gallons of sewage leaks from pipes into streets, drinking water More than 211.6 million gallons of toxic sewage – enough to fill 320 Olympic-sized swimming pools -- spilled into Fort Lauderdale’s waterways over the past three months due to breaks in the city’s aging pipe system, according to a report Monday.
February 12, 2020 'Invisible oil’ discovery shows BP Deepwater Horizon spill was larger than previously thought Toxic and invisible oil spread well beyond the initial footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, new research reveals.
February 6, 2020 Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor A type of black fungi that eats radiation was discovered inside the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
