. The race to commercialize apparel recycling is heating up. On May 20, Reju, a startup within a Dutch engineering and fossil fuel company, announced plans to build a polyester …
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. Darrell Fair was in his cell at Stateville Correctional Center during a heat wave last June when he heard shouts for help. Someone in a cell nearby was in …
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Cultural Values on Indigenous Lands Help Forests Thrive at Nearly Twice the Rate of Protected Areas: Study
. A Wounaan tribe woman rows a canoe in Puerta Lara, Darién Province, Panama on April 11, 2015. Eric Lafforgue / Art in All of Us / Corbis via Getty …
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NSW floods: one dead and ‘grave fears’ held for three missing people as crisis worsens | New South Wales
. One man has died and authorities hold grave fears for another three people reported missing in unprecedented flooding on the New South Wales mid-north coast. The premier, Chris Minns, …
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. Legal scholars are raising the alarm about the European Union’s (EU) decision to weaken its corporate sustainability disclosure, saying that it could well expose companies to climate-related lawsuits. Thirty-one …
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Fish Threatened By Farms and Mining Set to Be First Species Listed As Endangered in Second Trump Term
. DYER, Nev.—A century ago, Fish Lake Valley looked much more like its name than it does today. Ephemeral streams flowed from the mountain ranges surrounding this valley on the …
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Removal of Invasive Bullfrogs Leads to Increase of Native Pond Turtles in Yosemite, Study Finds
. A northwestern pond turtle hatchling at a study site in Yosemite. Sidney Woodruff / UC Davis Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, …
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The EPA is rolling back drinking water limits for 4 PFAS. Thousands more remain unregulated.
. Last week, environmental groups decried plans from the Environmental Protection Agency to rescind and “reconsider” drinking water limits for four per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, compounds linked to …
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. The UK’s oldest polar bear, and the first in the country to give birth to a cub in 25 years, has been put down because of age-related health problems. …
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. Monetizing reforestation and other nature-based carbon removal projects is hampered by the difficulty of verifying outcomes like soil carbon absorption across vast swaths of land and over multiple years. …