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Researchers have been trying to replace (PET plastic) for years. Most bio-based alternatives couldn’t handle heat or stretching at an industrial scale. A team from the University of Connecticut and Purdue University has now built one that can…

Emerging Pacific Ocean heat, combined with ongoing human-caused global warming, is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes. Heat alone already kills more than 500,000 annually. Researchers said that the consequences of a moderate or strong El Niño today are more damaging than those…

Pro-pesticide provisions in the House Farm Bill would have done two dangerous things. First, they would have restricted states from establishing unique pesticide protections for their people and their environment….Thankfully, people from all corners of the country opposed these rollbacks and empowered a broad bipartisan coalition…

May 19 - By A 5-0 Vote San Mateo county unanimously passed a resolution in support Of a California Polluters Pay Climate Supper Fund Act. San Mateo Residents, Led by Youth Advocates, attended the hearing to show support

A whopping 88% of Americans say they consume bottled water, according to an industry survey released in 2024. In fact that year we drank an estimated 16.4 billion gallons of it — 47.1 gallons and a shocking average of about 340 individual bottles per person. (Beyond the billions of $s spent) there’s another cost to this practice: serious effects on our health…

The Monterey Bay Area Stewardship Act (MBASA) would establish a regional funding and stewardship authority designed to unlock new resources for long-term stewardship of natural and working lands, strengthen water and climate resilience, and expand access to state, federal, and philanthropic funding across the tri-county region…

Which countries lead the global electrification race? One useful measure: electricity as a share of total final energy consumption. Norway is out in front at 49%, helped by hydropower and steady electrification of transport and heat. Sweden follows at 33%, Japan at 31%, then China and Finland at 29%…

During the 2000s, as global fossil fuel costs skyrocketed, Uruguay faced a tremendous issue. Uruguay, heavily reliant on foreign oil and paying exorbitant prices to for electricity from neighboring countries, found itself in an energy crisis. (Then) physicist Ramón Méndez Galain, spearheaded a radical shift towards clean energy - wind and hydropower…

We have been awarded $4 million from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) through the Grassland Resilience and Conservation Initiative to expand bird-friendly ranching practices across the Central Grasslands This will be achieved through our Audubon Conservation Ranching program….

For the past 15 years, onshore wind projects have followed the same process to get the Department of Defense’s permission to build. Now, that familiar route has been closed off, effectively jeopardizing all new wind projects on private land — more than 250 nationwide…

May 14 - In a clear sign that California is not facing water shortages or a drought this summer, Lake Oroville, the state’s second-largest reservoir and a key component of California’s water system, has nearly filled to the top. The massive reservoir, contained behind America’s tallest dam, was 99% full on May 12, 2026

If deforestation and global warming continue unchecked, the Amazon rainforest could begin a gradual transition to a degraded, grassland-like ecosystem in just a few decades, according to new research published in the journal Nature on May 6. The study provides new insight into when the forest might start to slip over a so-called tipping point…

We believe in caring for both people and the planet. Together, we’re reducing waste through the simple act of refilling - not just our containers, but also our hearts and minds with new ways of living more gently on the Earth. You can refill your own containers with everyday home, body, and cleaning products…

The Black communities neighboring the port (of Oakland) have fought for decades for their right to cleaner air. Now that dream is within reach….

Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park is now three times larger after Peninsula Open Space Trust donated 132 acres to the park, an estimated $5 million gift. “This greatly helps to preserve the natural beauty and outstanding views of the San Mateo Coast,” said Chris Spohrer….

U.S. Steel says it will invest $1.9 billion to build a modern and lower-carbon ironmaking plant in Arkansas — marking a key expansion beyond the company’s coal-based steel mills. The new ​“direct reduced iron” plant will sit alongside the sprawling Big River Steel Works, in the town of Osceola..

For the first time in over five decades, coal-fired electricity generation has dropped in both China and India, the world’s two largest consumers of coal. This historic shift, outlined in new research from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and published by Carbon Brief, may signal the beginning of a long-anticipated global turning point in carbon emissions.

This week, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard joins us to speak about her decades-long Mother Tree Project, which seeks to reimagine how we can protect the integrity of harvested forests and our climate futures. The challenge of our moment is not the discovery of new knowledge….

As a child growing up along the banks of Colombia’s Magdalena River, Yuvelis Morales Blanco learned to read the water. “Dark spots (oil spills) on the river meant that we were not going to eat,” she recalled. Now Morales Blanco, 24 y/o, has been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize — often called the “Green Nobel” ..

Evolution created the flagellar motor, a combination propeller/brain that enables single-celled bacteria to move toward food sources. It’s an electric motor that rotates at several hundred revolutions per second — faster than the flywheel in a race car engine — to twirl a tail-like flagellum that pushes the cell along…

SB 949 is a bill co-authored by Senator Josh Becker and Senator John Laird that "would designate the Santa Cruz Mountains... as a resource of statewide significance that requires special protection.

In 2016, a surprise decision from the Supreme Court “sent both climate policy and the court itself spinning in new directions,” Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak wrote in (a NYT) investigation published last week. The one-paragraph ruling halted the Clean Power Plan, President Barack Obama’s signature environmental policy, which was aimed at reducing emissions from power plants.

California, the nation’s top agricultural producer, could ban pesticides with PFAS after researchers found the “forever chemicals” on 40 percent of the conventional produce grown in the state. Schultz, D-Burbank, introduced A.B. 1603 earlier this year to ban the use, sale and manufacture of PFAS pesticides in California starting in 2035.