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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..

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..

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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….

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…

“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,

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%…

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…

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…

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…

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, …

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.

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.

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….

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. ..

Air Products has cancelled the so-called Louisiana ‘Clean Energy’ Complex. The company had planned to produce blue hydrogen and ammonia from methane gas, then pump its industrial carbon dioxide waste from Cancer Alley

A judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the Endangered Species Act with a plan to allow more roads in Bitterroot National Forest. The government must now assess how this plan affects grizzlies and bull trout. Earthjustice sued the Trump administration, building on decades of work…

Peak Energy announced (in June) that it has entered a new partnership with General Motors to manufacture sodium-ion batteries for energy storage systems. Sodium-ion batteries use super abundant sodium not lithium and thus are lower fire-risk…