Category: BUMMER

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced relaxation of environmental rules in response to the coronavirus pandemic, allowing power plants, factories[…]

East Antarctica’s Denman Glacier has retreated 5 kilometers, nearly 3 miles, in the past 22 years. The shape of the[…]

Lower-than-forecast water levels in a dam reservoir have created an unforeseen structural problem in addition to longstanding environmental, social and[…]

Heat stress from extreme heat and humidity is expected to annually affect areas now home to 1.2 billion people by[…]

A nine-day heat wave in February melted almost a quarter of an Antarctic island’s snow cover — an increasingly common[…]

Major revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) statute could shrink the scope and timeline of environmental review. Under[…]

COVID-19 has already disrupted crucial negotiations ahead of a November conference in Glasgow that could determine the Paris Agreement’s success[…]

The world’s tropical forests are rapidly losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide from greenhouse gas emissions. This decrease is[…]

Plastics’ consumption of oil may outpace that of cars by 2050.  The production process consumes fossil fuels to make plastics[…]