By focusing on reusable products, some organizations are helping to break our addiction to single-use plastic.

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Laurel Neme is the author of Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Forensics Lab is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species. Her work has appeared on National Geographic, Mongabay and other ...

As the climate crisis escalates, a huge amount of attention and money is being focused on climate solutions. These can be divided into two categories: solutions that pursue “mitigation,” which lowers ...

The recently enacted High Seas Treaty offers an opportunity to protect the ocean like never before.

John R. Platt is the editor of The Revelator and an award-winning environmental journalist whose work has appeared in dozens of publications around the world. His “Extinction Countdown” column has run ...

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Klamath Countdown: Researchers Hustle Before Largest Dam-Removal Project Begins To anticipate the impacts of a historic river restoration, we need to understand how salmon, bats, insects, algae and ...

Earthjustice and NRDC recently issued a press release pointing out the “ anti-backsliding ” provision in the Safe Drinking Water Act, which should have prevented the EPA from weakening existing ...

Drones, Algae and Fish Ears: What We’re Learning Before the World’s Largest Dam-removal Project — and What We Could Miss Scientists studying conditions on the Klamath River hope to help recovery ...

Critics argue the authoritarian government has rammed the project through with minimal environmental oversight and in violation of several laws.