by Environmental News | Aug 16, 2017 | Petition For Change
Author: Kate Yoder / Source: Grist Will they or won’t they? After the United Kingdom and France joined the Netherlands and Norway in putting an end date on the sales of fossil fuel–powered cars, the E.U. may set wide-reaching requirements for electric...
by Environmental News | Aug 16, 2017 | Petition For Change
Author: Justine E. Hausheer / Source: Cool Green Science Queensland fishermen circa 1915. Photo © State Library of Queensland / Flickr Fishermen tell tall tales — or so the saying goes. But sometimes, those hook-and-line exploits can become a valuable source...
by Environmental News | Aug 15, 2017 | Petition For Change
Author: Emma Foehringer Merchant / Source: Grist President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that he said will streamline the environmental review required to get large public construction efforts — like roads, bridges, and buildings — off the ground....
by Environmental News | Aug 15, 2017 | Petition For Change
Author: Ted Williams / Source: Cool Green Science A male Cerulean Warbler in Carroll Co., Maryland. Photo © Bill Hubick The cerulean warbler, named for the sky-blue upper feathering of the adult male, is in desperate trouble, especially in its core breeding...
by Environmental News | Aug 14, 2017 | Petition For Change
Author: Eric Holthaus / Source: Grist ready or not More than a week after an intense rainstorm triggered a flood so bad locals called it a “mini-Katrina,” Mayor Mitch Landrieu said that the city’s drainage system has “never been fully operational.” A number...
by Environmental News | Aug 13, 2017 | Petition For Change
Author: Bibi van der Zee / Source: the Guardian The long road from Dar es Salaam brings you through sparsely wooded hills and fields to the narrow northern neck of the Kilombero valley. There’s a bend in the road, then the land opens out, suddenly, in front...