Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A relatively small number of plants process much of the beef and pork in the United States, and some of them have closed because workers are getting sick. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/business/coronavirus-meat-slaughterhouses.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The coronavirus is closing meatpacking plants, adding to financial strains from the China trade war and the rise of “fake” meat alternatives. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/climate/meat-industry-climate-impact.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist has been attacked with falsehoods that he created the coronavirus and wants to profit from it. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/technology/bill-gates-virus-conspiracy-theories.html
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 17, 2020 (ENS) – The biggest climate conference of the year will be the Earth Day Week No Fly Conference – just one of the 50th anniversary events marking Earth Day 2020. During this public, free, online event, 100 key experts will meet virtually to share […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Melting ice has receded from a mountain pass, unearthing pelts, shoes and stone structures from thousands of years ago. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/world/europe/norway-viking-artifacts.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The drought that has gripped the American Southwest since 2000 is as bad as or worse than droughts in the region over the past 1,200 years, a new study finds. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/climate/drought-southwest-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A delicate ecosystem was disrupted in the Comoros, off East Africa, when forests were cleared to make way for farmland. The consequences offer lessons for other parts of the developing world. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/world/africa/comoros-climate-change-rivers.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The E.P.A. will change the way the benefits of mercury controls are calculated, a move that would effectively loosen the rules on other toxic pollutants. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/climate/epa-mercury-coal.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The notion of forgoing children as a means of fighting global warming is entering the mainstream. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/parenting/climate-change-having-kids.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Also this week, how to stay environmentally engaged Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/climate/biden-comes-out-on-top-now-the-really-hard-part.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scientists found a “cliff edge” instead of the slippery slope they expected. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/climate/wildlife-population-collapse-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The videos of deer and elephants, whether or not they’re real, speak to a budding hope: that the pandemic might change society, and us, for the better. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/magazine/quarantine-animal-videos-coronavirus.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Despite an emerging link between air pollution and Covid-19 death rates, the Trump administration will decline to tighten standards on soot emissions. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/climate/coronavirus-soot-clean-air-regulations.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Derided as a “Merchant of Doubt,” he spent decades trying to refute the evidence of global warming and other environmental risks. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/climate/s-fred-singer-dead.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Cities and towns nationwide are failing to properly restrict construction in flood zones, an analysis for The Times found, violating taxpayer-subsidized insurance rules. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/climate/fema-flood-insurance.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Critics say the popular Netflix series and its directors lost sight of the conservation and animal welfare problems at the heart of the story of Joe Exotic. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/science/tiger-king-joe-exotic-conservation.html
Published by the Environmental News Service LONDON, UK, April 9, 2020 (ENS) – UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been released from the intensive care unit at St. Thomas hospital in London where he has spent the past three days being treated for a case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that […]
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, April 9, 2020 (ENS) – “Peace is not just the absence of war. Many women under lockdown for COVID-19 face violence where they should be safest: in their own homes. Today I appeal for peace in homes around the world,” UN chief António Guterres said […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment New research from Stanford University holds lessons for a world reeling from the coronavirus and searching for ways to avert the next global pandemic. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/climate/animals-humans-virus-covid.html
Published by the Environmental News Service ROCKVILLE, Maryland, April 8, 2020 (ENS) – As the nation is focused on coping with the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, is quietly moving to permanently deregulate massive amounts of low-level radioactive waste, but not spent nuclear fuel. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2020/04/08/low-level-radioactive-waste-could-go-to-local-landfills/