#environmental-issues

#environmental-issues

Wang Bingbing’s life reflects a past where coal industry was dangerous but profitable. As China moves toward cleaner energy, families like his fear being left behind.

The proposed ordinance will permanently ban new construction in the landslide zone of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, aiming to ensure public safety amid significant land movement.

Black Earth Rising illuminates connections between the climate crisis, land, presence, colonization, diasporas, and social and environmental justice through the lens of Indigenous knowledge.

Watts has documented an alarming trend. The birds, which breed in many parts of the U.S., are failing to successfully fledge enough chicks around their key population center of the Chesapeake Bay.

There are about half a million objects the size of a cigarette pack in Earth's orbit, moving at speeds averaging 28,000 km/h. This creates a severe risk.

The fishermen of Puerto Morelos, on Mexico's Caribbean coast, risk their lives every time they head out to sea to fish or dive for lobsters. Their bounty is dependent on luck, as the weather often makes it impossible to go out, while on other days the hooks they cast come back empty.

Holloman Lake, created in 1965 for wastewater catchment, has become a unique oasis in the Chihuahuan desert, but alarming PFAS contamination has been discovered.

Disabled people are one of those groups who can be isolated and silenced by a government that doesn't want to listen. There's a lot of us, but we don't have the economic power of a trade union to protect ourselves, and we don't have much of a presence in the media, so we really need the right to protest to make ourselves visible and have our concerns heard.

Firefighters are tackling wildfires for a third day in the Scottish Highlands, putting pressure on fire and rescue services.

The appellate court found Oakland's appeal arguments unmeritorious, determining the city breached its contract with developers aiming to build a coal export terminal.

Robbins emphasized the urgency of water conservation, warning that Austin could face a water crisis in as little as 15 years without immediate action.

The trouble began earlier this month when New Forest District Council delivered new outdoor food recycling bins to thousands of households in villages including Brockenhurst, Lymington, and New Milton.

Through portrayals of nude subjects out in the open, Carino takes a stance of peaceful transgression and resists societal constraints placed on queer people, on masculinity, and on nature all at once.

The German Weather Service has issued a level five warning for forest fire risk in several Bavarian regions, urging extreme caution and discouraging outdoor fires.

"Additionally, with the projected sea level rise, most of the existing SR 37 will likely become permanently inundated by the mid-century and even as early as by 2040, thus cutting off a major regional transportation route."

Endling takes on bleak subjects—environmental ruin, the war in Ukraine—and dresses them up in playful irony, transforming a simple narrative into something much more complex.

The exhibition illustrates how art can act as a catalyst for environmental dialogue, inviting public participation to address pressing global crises while dismantling boundaries of traditional exhibition spaces.

Wildlife hunters took home nearly 1,800 giraffe body parts trophies in a year including from more than 100 animals specially bred in captivity to be shot.

"Residents in Blissville and Greenpoint have long complained about persistent fumes and odors from Green Asphalt, claiming they have created serious quality-of-life issues for over a decade."

Due to an almost complete lack of environmental legislation to regulate the city's host of metallurgic and chemical plants, the residents of Haina suffer from the highest level of lead poisoning on the planet.

The Sizewell C nuclear plant on the Sussex coastline is set for a £14.2 billion boost, intended to generate electricity for six million homes and contribute to clean energy.

Trevor Rogers has been reporting fly-tipping in Como Street and surrounding areas for years, noticing a significant increase in rubbish since before the pandemic.

"It feels like the tree is still the fall guy in this situation and it is just morally, ethically, environmentally wrong."

Thames Water is in a precarious position after KKR decided not to invest, prompting the company to engage with senior creditors to address financial challenges.

The order to the Eddystone plant highlights concerns over power shortfalls as aging plants close and demand rises, showcasing the need for continued operational capacity.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District reported an air quality advisory after a Chevron Refinery in Richmond initiated flaring, affecting several nearby cities.

"This was the longest, most toxic, and deadliest bloom we've ever experienced," the center announced on social media. "Because of your support and advocacy, we got through it, and hundreds of marine mammals received a second chance at life!"

Hundreds gathered as six gray seals were released back into the ocean after over two months of rehabilitation due to entanglement in fishing gear.