US Fossil Fuel Companies Get a Shocking Amount of Implicit Subsidies Each Year
If fossil fuel companies in the United States were made to pay for the real environmental and health costs of their products, a new model suggests it would set them…
Scientists Ranked The Most Dangerous And Toxic Pollutants in US Landfills
The United States is home to nearly 2,000 active landfills. Each day, these enormous piles of garbage can leach well over 2 million liters of liquid per site into the…
Global Warming Is ‘Fundamentally’ Changing The Structure of Our World’s Oceans
Climate change has wrought major changes to ocean stability faster than previously thought, according to a study published Wednesday, raising alarms over its role as a global thermostat and the…
Thousands of Jellyfish Are Dying Worldwide, And ‘The Blob’ Could Play a Role
Like a tourist on a cruise ship, the by-the-wind sailor jellyfish (Velella velella) spends its days drifting aimlessly through the open sea, gorging itself on an endless buffet of complementary…
Melting Glaciers May Be Playing a Subtle But Key Part in Alaska’s Earthquakes
As the enormous weight of Alaska’s glaciers rapidly melts away, the land underneath is rising upwards once again, like a feathery pillow after pressure is removed. According to a new…
Bottom Trawling in The Ocean Is Running The Tap on Earth’s Largest Carbon Sink
Fishing trawlers that drag big nets along the ocean floor potentially release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the world’s commercial aviation industry. The first study to estimate the…