Published by the Environmental News Service PRINCETON JUNCTION, New Jersey, March 31, 2020 (ENS) – The highly contagious, deadly novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, is spreading around the world in a global pandemic, raising everyone’s awareness of the need to avoid contact with frequently touched public surfaces. Still, people must buy things – […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment These are a few of the retired nurses, doctors and other health care workers helping to shore up a system under siege. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/climate/coronavirus-doctors-retire.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Before this 60,000-year-old submerged forest disappears, scientists recently raced to search for shipworms and other sea life that might conceal medicine of the future. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/science/underwater-forest-shipworms.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Trump administration has finalized new fuel efficiency standards, lowering expectations from 54 miles per gallon by 2025 to 40 miles a gallon by 2030. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/climate/trump-fuel-economy.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Inventors were about to test their ideas for making money by selling things made out of carbon dioxide, the main culprit in global warming. Then the pandemic struck. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/climate/xprize-carbon-coronavirus.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Union officials at FEMA say they would like to know where they work in order to warn other employees who might be exposed and to avoid putting the public at added risk. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/climate/fema-coronavirus.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Federal scientists and lawyers, told to undo regulations that some have worked on for decades, have embedded data into technical documents that environmental lawyers are using to challenge the rollbacks. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/climate/trumps-environmental-rollbacks-staff-scientists.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment If you’re one of millions of Americans exposed to air pollution, you may be at a greater risk of catching the coronavirus — and of having a more severe infection. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/climate/climate-pollution-coronavirus-lungs.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Generosity is a sign of intelligence, and givers are the rising tide that lifts all boats. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/smarter-living/negotiation-tips-giver-taker.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The agency said it would not penalize companies that violate rules on monitoring and reporting pollution discharges. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/climate/epa-coronavirus-pollution-rules.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment For the third time in five years, abnormally warm water has caused a “mass bleaching” of coral, and some of it will not survive. Scientists say global warming is killing reefs worldwide. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/world/australia/bleaching-great-barrier-reef.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Invasive herbivore mammals seem to restore functions missing in some food webs and ecosystems since the Pleistocene era. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/science/pablo-escobar-hippos.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Backers of single-use plastic bags, battered by a series of bans nationwide, are using the health scare to argue their bags are cleaner and safer. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/climate/plastic-bag-ban-virus.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A federal judge on Wednesday struck down permits for the pipeline and ordered a new environmental review of the project. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/climate/dakota-access-pipeline-sioux.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The administration is pushing ahead with efforts to roll back environmental protections and impose new limits on how science can be used for making rules. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/climate/coronavirus-environmental-regulations-trump.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Also this week, how drought can help the coronavirus spread Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/climate/nyt-climate-newsetter-coronavirus-drought.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment She’s in England, in the house she grew up in, and she has a few thoughts about chimpanzees, the coronavirus pandemic and the loo paper shortage. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/science/jane-goodall-coronavirus.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/climate/greta-thunberg-coronavirus-covid.html
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 23, 2020 (ENS) – Senate Democrats voted down a $1.8 trillion coronavirus aid package Sunday evening with five Republican senators absent. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a Republican and a medical doctor, announced Sunday morning he had tested positive for the coronavirus and would self-quarantine. Read […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Red Cross has issued new guidelines for its shelters, screening people for symptoms and keeping bed six feet apart. That strategy will soon be tested. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/climate/virus-fema-disaster-aid-shelter.html