High Country News: Utah is killing the Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is unique and uniquely fragile, utterly dependent on freshwater inflows to maintain its brackish wetlands, which are hotspots of biodiversity. Its significant degradation, much less its loss, would be devastating, not only to bird populations throughout the Western Hemisphere..
Happy Eco News: Portland Clean Energy Fund Raises $1 Billion for Climate Action and Community Resilience
In Portland, Oregon…. an innovative local initiative has demonstrated what can happen when climate action receives sustained investment. Created by Portland voters in 2018, the funding program is a first-of-its-kind climate and environmental justice program financed through a 1% tax on large retailers..
Earthjustice: The Line 5 Oil Pipeline is Threatening the Great Lakes — But We Just Got a Big Win Against It
In a major victory for Tribal nations, Michigan’s Supreme Court just dealt Enbridge a stunning blow. The court overturned a key permit the Canadian company needs to build a massive four-mile tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac for its aging Line 5 oil pipeline.
U.S. PIRG: New York just raised the bar on electronics repair
New York's state legislature just became the first in the country to pass a bill requiring retailers to post repair scores for electronics at the point of sale…. Repair scores rate a product based on factors like how available spare parts are, how easy it is to take apart and how long the manufacturer will keep supporting it.
Inside Climate News: Can Tech Keep Whales Safe From Deadly Vessel Strikes?
In San Francisco Bay, new AI-powered technology aims to help ships dodge whales whose long-haul migration is being disrupted by climate change. San Francisco Bay is one of the busiest marine superhighways in the United States. Massive container ships cruise alongside crude oil tankers under the Golden Gate Bridge…
Boiling Point: Landfill On Fire
Three years ago, environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in the Santa Clarita Valley. Few imagined the calamity that would follow.
Project Drawdown: How Much Beef Is Too Much for Climate Change?
Protein is having a moment. Though most Americans get more than enough of the macronutrient, there is a growing obsession with adding it to any number of foods, from pizza and cookies to soda and water. When it comes to climate change, where that surplus protein comes from can have a major impact on a person’s carbon foodprint…
Center For Biological Diversity: Suit Targets Trump Plan to Drain Mojave Desert
The Center for Biological Diversity and our allies just sued the Trump administration over its greenlighting of a private company’s plan to resurrect a defunct oil and gas pipeline to transport and sell groundwater out of California’s already-parched Mojave Desert.
Canary Media: California was mostly solar-powered in May — a global first!
While the Trump administration is busy pointing out that the sun doesn’t shine at night, solar is breaking records around the world, including in sunny California. Solar panels produced 51% of California’s electricity in May, the first time the clean energy source surpassed the halfway mark for an entire month…
Inside Climate News: Trump Promotes Commercial Fishing in Protected Pacific Marine National Monuments
In June, Trump signed a proclamation ordering the removal of commercial fishing prohibitions within the Islands Unit of the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument in the Northern Mariana Islands, the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in Hawaii and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument in American Samoa…
Sierra Club Magazine: Rae Wynn-Grant Is Breaking the Mold
For most of her two-decade career, Rae Wynn-Grant has studied big, charismatic carnivores. She’s tracked bears through North American forests and researched lions in East Africa. Now, she hosts Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild, becoming the first Black woman to host a major wildlife television series….
Save The Redwoods League: Returning ’O Rew -- Redwood lands back in Yurok hands
As Yurok Tribal Chairman Joseph James drives past the place his people call ‘O Rew... he says a prayer of joy and happiness for ancestral land renewed and returned. Only five years ago, the view from Highway 101 was of a derelict sawmill…
The Guardian: Slowdown in Arctic ice melt ends after largest winter decline on record
A previously recorded slowdown in Arctic sea ice decline has ended, according to a new study, with the largest year-to-year wintertime reduction ever recorded. Using the most recent satellite observations of sea ice coverage,..
Canary Media: California to offer a novel $3,500 rebate for first-time EV buyers
Research shows that once drivers try an EV, they stick with them. That’s why these incentives target those who’ve never owned one to maximize the bang for the buck…
EcoMotion: Coffee comes with huge hidden costs: poverty, child labor, and slave labor plus deforestation.
“If you are drinking coffee, you are definitely drinking poverty,” states Etelle Higonnet, Founder of Coffee Watch. Only a very few coffee companies pay a living income for the world’s 125 million coffee growers. Many are paid $2 – 3 a day,
CalMatters: California can’t (currently) replant its forests fast enough to keep up with wildfires
Over the past quarter century, high-severity wildfires have burned 2.3 million acres of California’s forestland so completely that the trees are unlikely to return on their own. And to replant even a quarter of the privately owned forestlands in the state, California would need to increase seed bank capacity by roughly 300%…
Lookout: Homeless Garden Project clears final roadblock to owning Natural Bridges Farm
Homeless Garden Project is one big step closer to owning its Natural Bridges Farm after a green light from Santa Cruz’s zoning administration on Wednesday morning. The zoning administrator approved the nonprofit’s application for a minor land division…
Bioneers: Ferris Jabr – Becoming Earth, How Our Planet Came to Life, Video
Western science has long resisted and even ridiculed the idea that our planet is alive, but many scientists now recognize that Earth and life continually coevolve and that, together, they form a single, interconnected, living system. Ferris Jabr, NYT bestselling author…
Fix The News: Solar Panels on Swiss Dam Very Productive in Winter
Planning ahead (it’s not always summer) Switzerland has bolted 5,000 solar panels to an Alpine dam, where they work best in winter. The AlpinSolar plant on the Muttsee dam, about an hour outside Zurich, sits at 2,500m…
Happy Eco News: Everglades Restoration Effort Advances with Major Project Moved Ahead of Schedule
Federal and state partners have approved an accelerated plan to advance the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Reservoir —- the centerpiece of Everglades restoration—moving its completion five years ahead of schedule, from 2034 to 2029…