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…
Happy Eco News: The First Ever Global Winners of the Earth Prize are from Youth from India
In June, 16-year-olds Vivaan Chhawchharia, Ariana Agarwal and Avyana Mehta were crowned Global Winners of The Earth Prize, the world’s largest environmental competition for teenagers. Their solution, Plas-Stick, uses discarded tamarind seeds to remove microplastics from drinking water, …
Center For Biological Diversity:Trump Administration Kills Protections for Endangered Wildlife Habitat
July 10 -- The Trump administration today finalized a rule removing nearly all habitat protections for endangered species. This decision will leave imperiled species at even greater risk of going extinct. The Endangered Species Act prohibits “take” of endangered species, including actions that harm species.
Canary Media: New Qcells plant doubles current US capacity to make solar cells
For five years straight, the U.S. power sector has built more solar farms than any other kind of power plant. However the production of solar cells — the high-value component that converts sunlight into electricity — has lagged far behind.
Inside Climate News: Herring and Herons: Signs of the Charles River’s Vast Improvement
From Boston’s Museum of Science to the Watertown Dam, the Charles River this spring was rife with river herring swirling in the water. Near the dam, dozens of the aptly named herring gulls perched on rocks and plunged for the fish….
Earthjustice: SoCal clean air rule upheld for boilers, water heaters
On July 2, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld South Coast Air Quality Management District’s (SCAQMD) zero-emission standard for boilers and water heaters, rejecting an industry challenge to a landmark clean air rule that will clean up pollution from industrial and commercial equipment. ..