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Biorecycling CEO displays a jacket made from pollution but says people still don’t believe it’s real or even possible
It can be hard to be optimistic about the future of Earth’s climate. Oceans are rising, autumn is unseasonably warm,…
Spending $3.3 million to locate marine debris along U.S. shorelines is among the latest efforts by the National Oceanic and…
‘Don’t take any storm for granted’: Atlanta’s mayor reveals how he prepares the city for an era of super storms
Hurricane Milton is expected to spare Atlanta. But that doesn’t mean mayor Andre Dickens is taking any chances. Dickens—alongside White…
ExxonMobil is no stranger to environmental lawsuits, but the latest attack on the oil & gas giant’s recycling marketing practices…
California sued ExxonMobil Monday, alleging it deceived the public for half a century by promising that recycling would address the…
Carbon credits are literally going up in smoke as wildfires threaten their sustainability
One of the biggest forest fires in California’s history has burned through nearly 430,000 acres, putting at risk millions of…
$3 billion energy giant admits violating pollution limits in Louisiana—just like it did in Mississippi
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — British energy giant Drax Global, already under scrutiny for running afoul of environmental laws in multiple…
A 59-year-old widow has been forced to use a breathing tube and skyrocketing demand for wood pellets in the EU might be to blame
This southern Mississippi town’s expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins’ home that she sometimes heard…
Kenya launched a fertilizer subsidy in 2008 and now farmers say the soil is dying and chemical fertilizers that make the land acidic are to blame
When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could…
When people tend to think of plastic pollution and the oceans, they usually think of discarded soda bottles and containers…