Environment

The Trump administration's U.S. Forest Service has allowed Canadian mining company Midas Gold to write their own environmental assessment for a controversial proposed gold mine in Idaho, according to The Associated Press.

The client list of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg's early consultancy work has been released and it includes several jobs related to efforts at increasing energy efficiency.

President Donald Trump espoused his new environmental rollbacks concerning the automotive industry today, but consumer advocates say the cost of filling up the gas tank could increase.

Critics say that the traps "inhumanely and indiscriminately" kill thousands of animals every year, posing a danger to endangered species, domestic pets and even humans.

A draws on the expertise of 15 researchers from different disciplines to predict what a warming world will mean for the Earth's polar regions.

Thunberg told crowds who had gathered to meet her in Lisbon, Portugal, she and other climate activists won't stop putting pressure on governments to act against climate change.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for the case, Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian.

Researchers find first direct evidence of a "glacial oxygen pump," which they say extended an essential lifeline to the simple life forms that inhabited the Earth at the time.

Although polychlorinated biphenyls are now banned, they continue to harm animals' health.

The whale was a 20-tonne young male found on the sandbanks of a Hebridean island in Scotland. An autopsy revealed plastic cups, bags and gloves among other things had become stuck in its stomach.

Republican men, specifically, were the least inclined to do anything in their personal lives to protect the environment.

New research suggests current air pollution standards are failing to protect human health and life.

Nitrous oxide is 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, although it is found in the atmosphere in smaller quantities.

According to the scientists, there are three main types of fire in the Amazon—all of which are caused my human activities.

"Demonstrating strong business support for this type of agenda certainly will help move" climate action, Diringer told Newsweek. "The ideas in the agenda could certainly help inform the thinking underway right now on Capitol Hill."

The report includes dozens of studies from across the world and highlights the widespread decline of insect populations.

Tongass National Forest is one of the largest intact temperate forests in the world, covering an area of around 16.7 million acres.

The Amazon rainforest is important to the global climate because of its role in storing vast amounts of carbon dioxide.

Environmental activist Sutu Forté has been given until Friday to end her "tree sit" protest against construction in Missouri.

During this time private cars with even number plates will only be permitted to drive on even dates and private cars with odd number plates will be restricted to odd dates.

President Trump said California would not get "$$$ help" from the federal government. Newsom retorted that Trump, a climate-change denier, is "excused from this conversation."

Two environmental groups have joined forces to sue the Trump administration on Wednesday in response to a U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management plan to open up 720,000 acres of federal land to oil and gas developers in 11 counties within California's central cost region.

A high level of fecal chloroform bacteria found in a SODO storm drain has been blamed on illegally parked RVs, leaving Seattle wondering who should be liable to clean the mess up.

Nearly 7,000 acres have been burned by a wildfire in Sonoma County, with mandatory evacuation orders and power shutdowns in place throughout the area.

The 16-year-old activist said people were writing threats to her 13-year-old sister and the rest of their family in an interview with Swedish news outlet Dagens Nyheter.

"The climate crisis is feeding monster hurricanes that bring suffering and death to some of our nation's most vulnerable wildlife," the author of a new report said.

The British branch of the Fridays for Future said the movement wasn't about "one person" in the wake of the Norwegian Nobel Committee decision today.

While the young activist was a favorite, the 2019 award went to Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia.

Drunk bees have been spotted around Australia's Parliament House thanks to a change in the weather.

The protester has been identified as Irish paralympian James Brown, who is registered as visually impaired and won the bronze medal for cycling in the 2012 Olympics.