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Leonardo DiCaprio’s environmental fund commits $5 Million to preserve Amazon rainforest
Earth Alliance, a new environmental organization backed by actor Leonardo DiCaprio has pledged $5 million to help preserve the Amazon rainforest, which has been experiencing devastating wildfires this month. The organization is reportedly working with local ...
Selfie-taking fern records own growth using plant power
Conservationists at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) are attempting to harness plant energy to oversee remote ecosystems. They are working on a project that could enable a plant “to take a selfie.” A maidenhair fern ...
Canada to ban single-use plastics by 2021
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday, June 10, that Canada is planning to ban single-use plastics by 2021 in an attempt to curb plastic pollution. “I'm very happy to announce that as early as ...
Biodegradable plastic made from seaweed organisms
From bags to bottles, every year about 13 million tons of plastic flows into our oceans, according to a U.N. report published in 2018. If the situation continues, our oceans could contain more plastic than ...
Brazil reduces top environment council, trims independents
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is slashing the size of a body that oversees environmental policy, effectively reducing the role of non-governmental organizations.The decree issued Wednesday cuts the size of the National Council of the Environment ...
New Hampshire sues 3M, DuPont, other chemical companies
New Hampshire has sued eight companies including 3M and the DuPont Co. for damage it says has been caused by a class of potentially toxic chemicals found in pizza boxes, fast-food wrappers and drinking water.The ...
Michigan AG will move to shut pipeline in June if no deal
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Wednesday she will move in June to shut a Great Lakes oil pipeline if the governor cannot reach a resolution with operator Enbridge, saying the state is in "great ...
Another plant sought to treat toxic water from former mine
Atlantic Richfield wants to build a second treatment plant to lower the level of acidic, metal-laden water that has collected in a former mining pit in Butte that was closed more than 35 years ago, ...
Malaysia to send back plastic waste to foreign nations
Malaysia will send back some 3,000 metric tons (3,300 tons) of non-recyclable plastic waste to countries such as the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia in a move to avoid becoming a dumping ground for rich ...
Monitoring group: Deforestation up 20% in Brazil’s Amazon
A non-governmental group that has monitored the Amazon rainforest for two decades said Monday that the pace of deforestation increased 20% in the most recent nine months.Imazon said satellite imagery showed the region lost 2,169 ...
Cleanup resumes at former chemical plant site in Michigan
Cleanup work has resumed at a former chemical plant in central Michigan that's become one of the country's costliest Superfund sites.An Environmental Protection Agency official, Thomas Alcamo, told MLive.com that it could still take another ...
Climate activists call for action in Latin America
Climate change activists in Latin America rallied for action on global warming Friday, heeding a call by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg to hold demonstrations across the world.In Rio de Janeiro, a small group of students ...
Home solar advocates push against proposed charge in Montana
Renewable energy activists urged Montana regulators on Thursday to reject a utility's request to add a charge for homeowners who generate surplus electricity from their own solar panels.Over the past two decades, about 2,300 NorthWestern ...
England to ban plastic straws, stirrers, and cotton buds
The UK government is taking steps to curb plastic pollution. Starting April 2020 plastic straws, cotton buds, and plastic stirrers, will only be provided under strict guidelines, for medical or scientific reasons. As part of the ...
Study: Ozone-killing chemicals traced to China
Ozone is critical to life, limiting the amount of harmful ultraviolet solar radiation that reaches Earth's surface
Budget deals start coming together ahead of special session
Deals were coming together Wednesday as Gov. Tim Walz and top legislative leaders prepared for a special session to finish work on the state's next two-year budget.The Democratic governor, GOP Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka ...
Australian state leader intervenes to approve coal mine
An Australian state government leader intervened on Wednesday to fast-track a proposed coal mine days after voters rejected tougher action to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the country's general election.The Carmichael mine proposed by India's ...
Bella Vista warned of unsafe air near underground dump fire
A property owner's association is warning residents about the unhealthy air near an underground fire that's been burning for 10 months at a former unlicensed dump in northwestern Arkansas.Crews began fighting the fire Saturday at ...
Inslee OKs funding to study removal of Snake River dams
Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a bill that provides $750,000 to study how to best help impacted communities if the four federal dams on the Snake River are breached.The four dams are blamed for reducing ...
Colorado’s new safety-minded oil and gas agency gets to work
The new-look Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission will hold its inaugural meeting on Tuesday as it begins rewriting state rules to emphasize public safety and the environment instead of energy production.It's the first time ...
