DuPont opened a factory in Saudi Arabia last week that will produce reverse osmosis water filters. The filters use ultra-thin membranes to remove water impurities, including PFAS — chemicals made and used by DuPont that have caused widespread water contamination around the world.
Read MoreAgency Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler [is] introducing the new rule that will vastly scale back federal water protections .
Read MoreKnown as the National Climate Assessment, [it] says that the consequences of climate change will leave no part of the U.S. untouched and … will increase wildfires, crumble infrastructure, worsen air quality, destroy crops and lead to more frequent disease outbreaks ...
Read MoreFallout from Colorado’s Amendment 74 could land on all states’ efforts to curb pollution and climate change.
Colorado voters have managed to get a statewide anti-fracking measure on the November ballot. Proposition 112 would require companies to place new wells at least 2,500 feet from homes, schools, waterways and other areas designated as “vulnerable.”
Read MoreThe family of chemicals called PFAS have been used in everything from carpeting to fast food wrappers. They also may have contaminated America's water.
Well here’s something you don’t see everyday: an iceberg so unbelievably geometric in shape you’d think it was deliberately carved with a gigantic chainsaw.
Read MoreNEW ORLEANS — An oil spill that has been quietly leaking millions of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in U.S. history.
… the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a daunting report, suggesting that we are currently on track for around 3 degrees Celsius of warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The IPCC authors promise that we will see coastal cities swallowed by the sea, global food shortages, and $54 trillion in climate-associated costs as soon as 2040.
Read MoreThe anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world, and can grow to be nearly the length of a school bus.
Rob Bilott was a corporate defense attorney for eight years. Then he took on an environmental suit that would upend his entire career — and expose a brazen, decades-long history of chemical pollution.
Read MoreSlurping up smoothies, sodas and slushies through disposable plastic straws could one day become a thing of the past.
Read MoreConfrontation of predatory animals in the wild.
An amazing scene unfolded on a Lindblad expeditions ship in Grandidier Channel, Antarctica. In a synchronized attack, a pod of orcas attempt to knock a crabeater seal off the ice.
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