Congress wants review of Keystone pipeline in wake of massive spill
Top U.S. House Democrats have called for a federal review of the Keystone pipeline and the agency that regulates it in the wake of 383,000-gallon (1.4-million-liter) spill in northeastern North Dakota, the latest of three spills along the line in as many years. In a ...
Court rules Trump administration unlawfully ignored dangerous chemicals
The Trump administration unlawfully excluded millions of tons of some of the most dangerous materials in public use from a safety review, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...
Next time you visit your hairdresser, spare a thought for the pigeons. For a long time scientists thought the fact that pigeons in urban environments often lost their toes was due to some form of infection or was a reaction to chemical pollutants. But now researchers ...
Delhi smog hits 'emergency' levels as Britain's Prince Charles visits
The Indian capital's notorious air pollution hit "emergency" levels again Wednesday, coinciding with a visit by Britain's Prince Charles. New Delhi has been choked on and off for weeks, as industrial and traffic pollution — combined with smoke from crop stubble burning — cast a ...
Why the plastic crisis matters
Humankind must find ways to get by without laying waste to the planet.
Pacific's Midway Atoll bird refuge struggles as ocean garbage patch grows
Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land with pristine white sand beaches that are teeming with life. But on the ground, there's a different scene: plastic, pollution and death. With ...
Plastic from ocean garbage patch plagues island sanctuary
Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land with pristine white sand beaches that are teeming with life. But on the ground, there's a different scene: plastic, pollution and death. With ...
Brazilian indigenous group seeks European support for Amazon rainforest protection
A delegation of Brazilian indigenous leaders is seeking to recruit European political support against incursions by loggers and cattle ranchers in the Amazon and the destruction of rainforest. Sonia Guajajara, a former Brazilian vice presidential candidate, is a prominent voice in efforts to protect the ...
'This city is not livable': New Delhi citizens struggle to deal with pollution
Sakshi Chauhan has not left her house in a quiet inner-city slum in the Indian capital for the past six days on her doctor's orders. The 22-year-old call center operator is recovering from a severe throat infection and the thick smog now blanketing New Delhi ...
Trump administration eases Obama-era rule on coal pollution in waterways
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump moved Monday to relax Barack Obama-era limits on coal plants discharging ash- and metal-contaminated waste into waterways, the latest in a series of administration breaks for the lagging American coal industry and for utilities using coal-fired power ...
For more than two years President Donald Trump has talked about pulling the United States out of the landmark Paris climate agreement. Starting Monday he finally can do something about it. Even then, though, the withdrawal process takes a year and wouldn't become official until ...
India's smog-bound capital suffers worst air pollution so far this year
Air pollution in New Delhi and its surrounding towns reached the worst levels so far this year Sunday, with authorities in the world's most polluted capital city having already declared a public health emergency and ordered schools closed. The air quality index, measuring levels of ...
