Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON — The Atlantic Richfield Company (AR) has agreed to complete its cleanup of the Anaconda Smelter Superfund Site (Site) in Deer Lodge County, Montana, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice announced today. The state of Montana, on behalf of the Department of Environmental Quality, […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) NEW YORK – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized an amendment to its original cleanup plan for the Cosden Chemical Coatings Corp. Superfund site in Beverly, New Jersey, after assessing a new treatment method. This new cleanup technology will help break down hazardous contaminants into less […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) U.S. EPA Region 7 Administrator Meg McCollister is joined by Denison Mayor Pam Soseman, City Manager Bradley Hanson, and other community members during a novelty “Big Check” presentation in Denison, Iowa, Sept. 30, 2022. (Photo credit: U.S. EPA) LENEXA, KAN. (SEPT. 30, 2022) – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Concern turns to industrial sites and huge farms farther north as the storm heads toward South Carolina. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/climate/hurricane-ian-toxic-waste.html
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) CHICAGO (September 29, 2022) – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a determination under the National Historic Preservation Act that the proposed interim measure for the Tower Standard site, located at Haskell Lake at County Road D and State Highway 70 on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Before the pandemic, the long-sought ruins of Sak Tz’i’, a small but influential Mesoamerican kingdom, were discovered on a cattle ranch in Mexico. This summer archaeologists returned to excavate it. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/science/archaeology-mayan-mexico.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A severe drought has dented energy supplies and disrupted access to water for hundreds of thousands. Cities order rolling blackouts; farmers rush to save crops. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/world/asia/china-heat-drought.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment How the agriculture industry could go from farming to “ferming.” Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/podcasts/precision-fermentation.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The sites, once a source of greenhouse gases, have a useful feature: They’re wired to the electricity grid. For new ventures like solar farms, that can save a lot of time and money. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/climate/coal-plants-renewable-energy.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A prolonged dry spell caused by increasingly dry winters, higher temperatures and less rain has put the fertile region’s rice harvest and other crops at risk. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/world/europe/italy-drought-farmers.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A shortage of chemical fertilizer, worsened by the war in Ukraine, has growers desperate. It just so happens that human urine has the very nutrients that crops need. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/climate/peecycling-farming-urine-fertilizer.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Blistering spring temperatures have devastated crops of the country’s most beloved fruit. “The soul of a farmer shudders at seeing these fruitless trees,” one grower said. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/world/asia/india-heat-wave-mango.html
Published by the Environmental News Service CARDIFF, Wales, UK, May 16, 2022 (ENS) – Farmlands across Europe are becoming the largest global reservoir of microplastics due to the high concentrations found in fertilizers derived from sewage […] The post Wastewater Recycling Sends Microplastics Back to Soil, Ocean first appeared on . Read the full article […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The first global analysis of its kind found that logging and farming are taking away reptile habitat at an unsustainable pace, exacerbating a worldwide decline in biodiversity. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/climate/reptiles-extinction-biodiversity.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Some owners are taking steps to make their buildings more energy efficient, including upgrading building materials and turning the rooftops into solar farms. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/12/business/green-warehouses-solar-rooftop.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Tank treads ripped up the toxic soil, bulldozers carved trenches and bunkers, and soldiers spent a month camped in — and dug into — a radioactive forest. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/world/europe/ukraine-chernobyl.html
Published by the World Wildlife Fund To target and help prevent food waste at the start of the supply chain, WWF supported seven farmers and companies to assess the amount of food left behind in their fields and operations. Read the full article at: https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/what-farmers-found-when-they-measured-fresh-produce-left-in-the-field
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Drought and a decade of war have brought failing crops and poverty to a region once known as Syria’s breadbasket. Even the bread has changed. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/19/world/middleeast/syria-drought-climate-food.html
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Rice and rubber farmers in Thailand come together to produce organic fertilizer to replace chemical fertilizer. The results pay off in more ways than one. Read the full article at: https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/the-science-of-soil-the-language-of-the-land
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The solar farms, planned for the California desert, would generate enough electricity to power about 132,000 homes, the Interior Department said. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/climate/solar-power-federal-land-california.html