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Oil Company Caught Illegally Dumping Fracking Discharge In Central Valley For the first time, California has penalized an oil company over illegal fracking activity after the discovery of a video showing wrongful dumping of the fracking discharge. Read More |
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Climate Change's Biggest Threats Are Those We Aren't Ready For: Report Climatic changes -- and the results of those changes -- could occur within decades or even sooner, and they are becoming a greater concern for scientists, according to a new paper from the National Academy of Sciences. Read More |
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Urban Schools Aim for Environmental Revolution Nothing seemed special about the plates from which students at a handful of Miami schools devoured their meals for a few weeks last spring — round, rigid and colorless, with four compartments for food and a fifth in the center for a carton of milk. Read More |
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Short on Space, Taiwan Embraces a Boom in Recycling Twenty-five miles west of here on Taiwan’s rugged northwest coast, a cavernous warehouse under construction represents the new priorities for an island where the streets were once littered with piles of discarded electronics and other refuse. Read More |
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Kiribati faces its future, and a rising ocean Recently, a curious case appeared before New Zealand's High Court. The plaintiff, Ioane Teitiota, a resident of the island-nation of Kiribati, was seeking refugee status in New Zealand. Read More |
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Unavoidable Answer for the Problem of Climate Change Japan’s announcement last week that it would not meet its promise to sharply reduce its carbon emissions met a chorus of disapproval from around the world. Read More |
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Fracking’s Achilles’ Heel It’s not very often that someone starts his career as a geologist and then winds up as governor, but John Hickenlooper, the governor of Colorado, can make that claim. Read More |
