WASHINGTON » When you weigh all life on Earth, billions of humans don’t amount to much compared to trees, earthworms or even viruses. But we really know how to throw what little weight we have around, according to a first-of-its-kind global census of the footprint of life on the planet.
Humans only...
By Chris Mooney
The Washington Post

A grounded ship sits on the dry bed of the Aral Sea, which is about 62 miles from Aralsk, Kazakhstan. The Aral, the world’s fourth-largest freshwater sea, once covered an area the size of Ireland. But then it became part of the Soviet Union. The Communists div...
By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» Four Senate Democrats asked Scott Pruitt on Monday for details about a new legal defense fund to help the Environmental Protection Agency administrator as he weathers a series of federal ethics investigations.
Pruitt confirmed at a Senate...
WASHINGTON » Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt moved Thursday to rescind a series of safety measures proposed for chemical plants nationwide after a deadly blast at a Texas fertilizer plant.
Pruitt signed a significantly revised slate of rules from the Obama era on safety a...
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PRUITT AMENDS SAFETY RULES** Earth Protect NOTE: New Plant Explosion Days Later
WASHINGTON » Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt moved Thursday to rescind a series of safety measures proposed for chemical plants nationwi...
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ENVIRONMENT
High-flying whodunit: Who’s cheating on the ozone treaty?
Scientists have stumbled on to an atmospheric detective story: Someone in East Asia appears to be cheating on a three-decade-old global environmental treaty that banned ozone-...
Destroying Public Confidence in the EPA
Pruitt is “ruling” the EPA in a manner more befitting a potentate than a public servant—operating in secrecy, silencing employees, and spending lavishly on himself. While Pruitt calls for draconian cuts in environmental programs, he has been wasting taxpayer ...
New research about sunscreen's damaging effects on coral reefs suggests that you might want to think twice before slathering it on.
Reports about the harmful environmental effects of certain chemicals in the water have been circulated for years, but according to the authors of a new study released...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Many people in coastal communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean depend on the natural resources provided by reefs for their livelihoods. Ensuring proper management of the reefs is vital for the economic and environmental health of the region, but there ...
The World Resources Institute produced the report in close collaboration with the USAID-funded Coral Triangle Support Partnership (CTSP). Reefs at Risk Revisited in the Coral Triangle was adapted from WRI’s 2011 global analysis of threats to coral reefs, Reefs at Risk Revisited, and supplemented wit...
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Briefs
HIGH-ETHANOL GAS TO BE SOLD
YEAR-ROUND
WASHINGTON » President Donald Trump will allow year-round sales of renewable fuel
with blends of 15 percent ethanol as part of an emerging deal to make changes to the
fede...
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Pentagon revised report from Obama era to remove climate change references
By Chris Mooney and Missy Ryan The Washington Post
WASHINGTON» Internal changes to a draft Defense Department report de-emphasized the threats climate change poses t...
The World Added Nearly 30 Percent More Solar Energy Capacity in 2017
The global solar market grew 29.3 percent last year, with nations installing 98.9 gigawatts of new capacity, according to data from the industry group SolarPower Europe. While more capacity was installed in 2017, the g...
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HIGH-ETHANOL GAS TO BE SOLD YEAR-ROUND
WASHINGTON » President Donald Trump will allow year-round sales of renewable fuel with
blends of 15 percent ethanol as part of an emerging deal to make changes to the federal
ethan...
Six former high-ranking employees and a former contractor for Anadarko Petroleum Corp. say in court documents that Colorado’s largest energy driller put profits over safety, creating massive risks before a leaking company pipeline caused a fatal home explosion in Firestone in April 2017.
The statem...
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WATER ISSUES
NOAA: Outlook grim for Colorado River
By Dan Elliott
The Associated Press
The outlook for the most important river in the Southwestern U.S. remains grim this summer after April storms failed to produce much snow in the mountains th...
By Jason Scott
April 28, 2018, 8:51 PM MDT
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Largest living structure is under siege from climate change
Conservationists say planned coal mine will exacerbate damage.
The Great Barrier Reef is being given a A$500 million ($379 million) boost by Australia in the battle to...
BRUSSELS » The European Union made a key breakthrough Friday to ban pesticides that harm bees and their crop pollination.
The 28 member states got a large majority, representing some three-quarters of its population, backing the ban on the three prevalent neonicotinoid pesticides, which will t...
Negotiators face daunting task working out fine print to fulfil pledge to limit global warming at well under 2 deg C
PARIS • Front-line negotiators from more than 190 nations gathering for climate talks in Bonn tomorrow face a daunting task: bring the 2015 Paris Agreement to life The world's o...
