Trump Meets With G7 Countries, Remains Undecided on Paris Agreement
Trump's meeting with world leaders comes amid intense debate in Washington over the Paris Agreement.
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A Third of U.S. Bee Colonies Died in the Last Year
The die-off is the latest data point in a decade-long decline in the nation's honeybee colonies.
The Consequence of the Trump Administration Slashing the EPA’s Science Office
The Office of Research and Development has been at front lines of virtually every environmental crisis. Trump wants to cut its funding in half.
Republicans Urge Trump to Abandon Paris Agreement
Republicans senators cautioned Trump that remaining in the agreement could leave his administration's regulatory rollbacks subject to legal challenges.
Nearly 2,700 Natural Gas Storage Wells in America Are at Risk for a Major Leak
Across the country, companies keep extra natural gas in aging underground wells that weren't originally designed for such storage.
In Nepal, Publicly Burning Confiscated Items Is a Warning to the Illegal Wildlife Trade
The stockpile included parts from 48 species, including 67 tiger skins, 357 rhino horns, and two sacks of pangolin scales.
Back-to-Back Bleaching Events May Have Wiped Out Half the Great Barrier Reef
Thirty percent of the coral system was wiped out by warming waters in 2016; another 20 percent died off this year.
Republicans: ‘The EPA Is a Helicopter Mom’
At a House Science Committee hearing on states' role in EPA rule-making, Republicans lamented a supposed parent-child relationship between the federal agency and its state-level counterparts.
Cocaine Traffickers Are Turning Swaths of Central American Rainforest Into Money-Laundering Ranches
Cocaine trafficking—not coca-growing—is responsible for up to 30 percent of the rainforest destruction in Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
‘A Matter of Survival’: Talking Existential Climate Threats in Bonn
Earth's most vulnerable nations remind the developed world that climate action is a question of life or death.