The ability of the Great Barrier Reef to recover after continued episodes of cumulative stress is declining. Drastic remedies are necessary to save this unique ecosystem; some scientists suggest improving water quality could improve the health of the reef, but ultimately, survival requires tackling climate change.
Read more...Public seems to be getting the memo about climate change– despite the forces arrayed to fog this issue and Trump’s abysmal policies. Has this shift come too little, too late– and will necessary policy changes follow?
Read more...The mantra Reduce, Reuse, Recycle should be extended to include Repair, in order to address the worldwide waste crisis. Surprise, surprise, the US lags on this issue, but other countries are showing some progress.
Read more...As Trump barrels into the UK, this timely post traces interesting linkages between climate change denialists on both sides of the Atlantic– and extends to Brexiteers.
Read more...Texas Supreme Court strikes down city of Laredo’s plastic bag ban. Real problem is dominance of money-driven politics– which is a far more difficult problem to solve than curtailing the use of plastic.
Read more...One-third of the fish caught are wasted before they ever reach a dinner plate, according to the UN Food And Agriculture Organization’s latest biannual report on the state of the world’s fisheries.
Read more...House of Commons committee launches inquiry into environmental costs of fast fashion, with a misplaced emphasis on recycling rather than reducing consumption outright.
Read more...EPA administrator Scott Pruitt resigned Thursday. Will his acting replacement, former coal lobbyist and climate denier Andrew Wheeler, be less of a disaster for the environment?
Read more...Fueled by fracking in the region, petrochemical and plastics projects in the Ohio River Valley are attracting tens of billions of dollars in investment, overwhelming state regulators who are unprepared and ill-equipped to oversee this next wave of industrialization.
Read more...Japan and the United States decline to endorse G-7 Ocean Plastics Charter– a voluntary effort inadequate to the scale of the problem but better than outright neglect.
Read more...Comprehensive analysis of why it matters that fracking companies are overestimating their ‘proved’ oil and gas reserves– as allowed under an SEC rule change.
Read more...After a decade of failed carbon taxes, Washington state is pushing to pass the country’s first “carbon fee.” Will this time be different?
Read more...Why Ellicott City’s flood didn’t have to be the disaster it was.
Read more...Trump regulators and California are on a collision course over efforts to roll back the previous administration’s fuel efficiency standards, due to come into effect in 2021.
Read more...Planet or Plastic: more than individual solutions will be necessary to solve the problem. This is not a left/right issue.
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