ecology

Study finds alarmingly high levels of “forever chemicals” in small estuaries

January 29, 2024 By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes

“The increasing proportion of wastewater to fresh water in streams, a trend projected to extrapolate to temperate regions due to climate change, consequently leads to chronic exposure of estuaries to elevated PFAS concentrations."

The surprising biodiversity of abandoned coal mines

October 10, 2023 By Katie Myers

“We’re increasingly finding that it’s not true that these are just ecological voids where nothing is living there.”

Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says

June 1, 2023 By Seth Borenstein

It’s not a terminal diagnosis. The planet can recover if it changes.

Secretive Israel-UAE oil deal endangers prized Eilat corals

August 16, 2021 By Ilan Ben Zion

Initially hailed as a move that could cement fledgling diplomatic ties and further Israel’s energy ambitions, the deal is now in question after Israel’s new government opened a review.

Biden aims to restore species protections weakened by Trump

June 9, 2021 By Matthew Daly And Matthew Brown

Habitat destruction drives the biodiversity crisis and what scientists refer to as the Earth's 6th great mass or Anthropocene extinction, driven by human activity. Environmentalists applaud the Biden administration's "America the Beautiful" 30 by 30 Conservation...