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Residents of Somerset and Wicomico want the state to investigate the air for pollutants coming from chicken manure. Their elected officials don’t see the need.
During a drought earlier this year in Australia, where temperatures reached 117 degrees Fahrenheit, farmers…
It’s getting so hot out that Africa could lose up to 50% of its bird and mammal populations by the end of the century. Species loss in the Americas could hit 40% in the next 30 years.
In the midst of some really bad climate news, here’s a story about animals adapting…
Wildlife Alliance/Flickr Journalist Rachel Love Nuwer reports from the front lines of the cruel trade…
Tell me about the last raven you saw. How close did you get? How much…
It’s official, the Beyond Burger generates 90% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than U.S. beef. If…
6,000 wild buffalo, horses, donkeys, and pigs were culled from Kakadu National Park, Australia in…
First, Toronto residents were afraid raccoon-proofing trash cans would starve out the raccoons. True, only…
Big Ag is the largest groundwater user in Sulphur Springs Valley, AZ—and it’s not slowing…
Animal Day/Flickr Four thousand clay lagoons full of manure runoff from North Carolina’s hog industry…
One-third of the oceans and land need to be protected by 2030 to avoid an…
Animal agriculture isn’t one of the main challenge areas for the Global Climate Action Summit…
The climate science community, for over a decade now one of the most vocal defenders of factual scientific information, will not be able to leave animal agriculture off its agenda for much longer.
Manure from agricultural operations and livestock farms is the main source from which phosphorus and…
Plants are good for us. Of the species we’ve discovered so far, 31,000 can be…
Let’s talk about sloths. Lucy Cooke founded the Sloth Appreciation Society with one thought in…
If seawater temperatures in Iceland increase by just one degree, which it has since the…
Here’s what the most polluted places on Earth look like. About 12,000 years ago, the…
Insecticides are linked to developmental delays in toddlers. Oh, and Parkinson’s disease and lowered fertility…
During Wyoming’s first legal wolf hunting season in 50 years, it cost just $12 to…
Livestock farming takes up 41% of all U.S. land. See for yourself in this Bloomberg…
With a growing public demand, two Harvard researchers attempt to answer that question. Over the…
The average seafloor is about 12,000 feet below the surface. That’s 90 to 99% of…
Many of us are afraid of bees, but they help to shape our natural world.
The world’s top 20 meat and dairy companies emit more greenhouse gases than Germany.
The extent of human impact on these underwater ecosystems is impressive. Still, we’ve only mapped 5 percent of the world’s seafloor in any detail. Excluding dry land, that leaves about 65 percent of the Earth unexplored.