Palm oil is destroying rainforests and threatening extinction of orangutans, tigers, rhinos and elephants

A woman who helped reverse a rule against bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides and GMO crops on national wildlife refuges has been chosen to oversee the protection (or some say destruction) of national wildlife refuges

After finding microplastics in our seafood, salt and drinking water, scientists have now confirmed there is plastic in our poop too

China is rapidly and illegally gobbling up the world’s second largest rainforest, in Africa, to fuel America’s appetite for cheap furniture.

European Union votes to ban plastic bags, straws, cutlery, plates and carry-out containers across the continent

An artificial reef made of tires in the 1970s is breaking apart, damaging actual coral reefs and littering beaches with old tires

By 2030, all new vehicles sold in Denmark will be electric or hybrid

Billions of wasp-sized mosquitoes, able to bite through two layers of clothing, descend on North Carolinians like “flurries of snow”

At least one of Duke Energy’s giant coal-ash piles has collapsed, displacing 2000 cubic meters of ash containing arsenic, lead and mercury, likely into North Carolina’s drinking water.

39,000 tons of coal ash spilled from a coal ash pond in Eden, NC, in 2014, contaminating 70 miles of the Dan River. Credit: Waterkeeper Alliance