April 28, 2016 Is the Doomsday Clock still relevant? Seven minutes to midnight. Five minutes to midnight. Three minutes to midnight
March 30, 2016 State of California flouts its own enviro laws, claims county threatening multi-million-dollar suit Sacramento County is threatening to fine Caltrans millions in taxpayer dollars for drilling hundreds of wells over a period of decades in violation of laws aimed at protecting groundwater, records show.
March 27, 2016 Plastic-laden plankton poop could be disastrous The amount of plastic in our oceans is now popping up as gigantic islands and set to outpace the global fish population by 2050.
December 21, 2015 Obama planning to sidestep Congress for next phase in climate change agenda President Obama will announce Tuesday he is planning to sidestep Congress to implement a national plan to combat climate change that will include the first-ever federal regulations on carbon dioxide emitted by existing power plants, despite adamant opposition from Republicans and some energy producers.
December 2, 2015 Australia approves dumping dredged mud around Great Barrier Reef Australia approved a plan to dump large amounts of mud and sediment into the oceans surrounding the Great Barrier Reef in order to make room for developers to expand a coal port on the country's eastern coast on Friday.
November 29, 2015 Suits claim Love Canal still oozing 35 years later Thirty-five years after Love Canal's oozing toxic waste scared away a neighborhood and became a symbol of environmental catastrophe, history could be repeating itself.
November 5, 2015 Welcome to Hell: Photographer documents Africa’s e-waste nightmare Slag heaps of rusting electronics, old refrigerators and monitors are scattered everywhere in Agbogbloshie, a dumping ground in Ghana for electronic waste from the rest of the world -- including the United States.
October 21, 2015 Officials begin testing mysterious goo linked to San Francisco Bay Area bird deaths San Francisco Bay Area officials have begun laboratory tests and necropsies on dead seabirds found coated with a mysterious substance that looks and feels like dirty rubber cement.
