Environment & Health
Scientists’ Letter Urges Brazil’s President Lula to Reject New Amazon and Offshore Drilling
By Bob Berwyn
Alabama Environmental Groups Secure Rare Win in Fight to Update Water Toxicity Standards
By Dennis Pillion
As Wildfires Increase, NJ Considers the Impact on Public Health
By Anna Mattson
Pollution, Not Drought, Prompts Lawn-Watering Ban in Des Moines
By Anika Jane Beamer
Juneteenth and Its Role in Environmental Justice—for All
Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
USGS Touts Potential Oil and Gas Resources Beneath Public Lands in Updated Survey
By Jake Bolster
An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers
By Lee Hedgepeth
At UN Ocean Conference, Nations and Funders Seek to Create and Expand Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas
By Teresa Tomassoni
A National Quest for Uranium Comes to Remote Western Alaska, Raising Fears in a Nearby Village
By Max Graham, Northern Journal
Air Pollution Is ‘Keeping Kids Out of School’ in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, Study Shows
By Kiley Bense
US Labor Advocates Demand Heat Protections for Workers as Planet Warms
By Liza Gross
Climate Change Makes Protests Harder—Including Climate Change Protests
By Kiley Price
In Canada’s ‘Silicon Valley’ of Mining, Speculators Power a Hunt for Alaska’s Minerals
By Max Graham, Northern Journal
Two Suns, One City: Karachi’s Dueling Realities in a Warming World
By Aman Azhar
Saved From the Saw: Conservation Deal Spares 8,000 Acres of Sensitive Land in Alabama From Becoming a Wood Pellet Mill
By Dennis Pillion
EPA Grants Were Set to Address Health Risks on the Hopi and Navajo Reservations, Until the Trump Administration Cut Them
By Wyatt Myskow
