Environmental Studies

"A federal study released Thursday determined that hardrock mining in a Minnesota wilderness area would risk contaminating the region."

"The Biden administration is throwing out the definition of “habitat” for endangered animals, returning to an understanding that existed before the government under President Donald J. Trump shrank the areas that could be protected for animals under threat of extinction."

"There's a vast world around us that animals can perceive — but humans can't."

"The current pace of reducing agricultural pollution in the Chesapeake Bay is off track, an advocacy group said Wednesday."

"As California endures water restrictions due to widespread drought, a proposed $2.5-billion reservoir expansion project in Santa Clara County promises to increase the amount of freshwater for more than a million people."

"Democratic SEC Commissioners Allison Lee and Caroline Crenshaw are raising more questions about whether the agency’s climate disclosure proposal would do enough to elicit reliable greenhouse gas emissions data from companies."

"“We can’t put this one back in the bottle,” said the researcher behind a recent study about the spread of zoonotic diseases."

"In a long series of court proceedings, permits allowing the fracking and acidizing of oil wells in federal waters off the coast of California were prohibited by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today [Friday].