Newsflash for July 10, 2025
Are July 4th fireworks bad for the environment?
Newsflash for July 7, 2025
The U.S. Department of Defense will no longer provide satellite weather data, leaving hurricane forecasters without crucial information about storms as peak hurricane season looms in the Atlantic.
Newsflash for June 5, 2025
Congress moves to loosen toxic air pollution rules.
Newsflash for May 31, 2025
Newsflash for May 4, 2025
The Trump Administration has dismissed the scientists working on the country's flagship climate report, a move that threatens to curtail climate science and make information about global warming less available to the public.
Newsflash for April 29, 2025
Using wildfires as cover, Trump moves to hand over public forests to logging industry.
Newsflash for April 17, 2025
Trump administration DEI cuts hit nationwide tree planting effort: The Trump administration's efforts to end federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs has hit an unexpected target: In February, communities around the country learned that funding was canceled for a nationwide tree-planting program aimed at making neighborhoods cooler, healthier and more resilient to climate change.
Newsflash for March 14, 2025
The historic, aging ocean liner that a Florida county plans to turn into the world’s largest artificial reef departed from south Philadelphia’s Delaware River waterfront marking the opening segment of its final voyage.
Newsflash for March 7, 2025
The Colombian 'hotel for cows' could help reduce deforestation in the Amazon.The "hotel for biodiversity" is something called silvopasture, which is a farming practice that combines trees, forage, and livestock on the same land — a type of agroforestry. Since adopting this system, the El Hatico farm in Cali Colombia, reports they have almost doubled the number of cows they raise per hectare and the dairy cattle — which they also slaughter for beef — make more milk.
Newsflash for January 31, 2025
Wind combined with energy storage like batteries and grid management can be a reliable and inexpensive energy source. There is also no evidence that the offshore wind industry kills large marine mammals like whales. Still, Trump specified in the order "the importance of marine life, impacts on ocean currents and wind patterns.”
Newsflash for January 29, 2025
We celebrate National Puzzle Day today, a great way to appreciate the benefits puzzles bring to our lives including boosting cognitive skills, improving memory, and strengthening problem-solving abilities. Puzzles also reduce stress, encourage social Interaction and develop critical thinking by challenging the brain, encouraging logical thinking, creativity & perseverance. Anchors Aweigh!
Newsflash for January 22, 2025
Top global polluter Coca-Cola announced “voluntary environmental goals”, in which the company dropped its reuse targets and decreased its plastic recycling goals from previous initiatives. In 2022, Coca-Cola had committed to making 25% of its packaging reusable by 2030 Alarmingly, in the new announcement, the reuse goal has disappeared.
Newsflash for January 21, 2025
The common electric vehicle doesn't need to hit lightning speeds – but Formula E race cars could usher in a new era for all. When Formula E's Season 10 kicked off at Mexico City's Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez last year, the roar of 40,000 spectators easily drowned out the mosquito whine of the 24 all-electric race cars zipping off the starting grid. Hurtling along at speeds upwards of 300km/h (186mph), some of the best drivers in the world jockeyed for position along the circuit. Formula E is now a decade old. It has 11 teams, with 22 drivers total, operating single-seater race cars similar in appearance to the famed open-cockpit vehicles of Formula One. More car buyers are expected to eventually pick battery-powered cars and trucks as prices fall and technology improves, even if Biden-era incentives disappear.
Newsflash for January 20, 2025
What Happened to Carter’s White House Solar Panels? They Lived On. It was a novel idea at the time, but one that made sense: In 1979, President Jimmy Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the roof of the White House. It was a novel idea at the time, but one that made sense: In 1979, President Jimmy Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the roof of the White House. They were removed just seven years later, under President Ronald Reagan. But that wasn’t the end of their story. They were picked up at a bargain price by a small college in Maine, where they continued to generate power for years, and eventually ended up scattered around the United States and China.
Newsflash for January 1, 2025
College students get emotional about climate change. Some are finding help in class.
Newsflash for December 27, 2024
The days of cheap coffee are gone forever… Coffee prices soar after droughts in Brazil and Vietnam.
Newsflash for November 9, 2024
Forty-three escape
Bananas left in their wake
Newsflash for October 13, 2024
In a climate change-ravaged future, Florida residents need to prepare for what is to come, underscoring more homes need to be built and designed in a different way.
Newsflash for September 8, 2024
Happy Birthday, Smokey Bear! Smokey Bear turns 80 this year. Human-caused climate change has made these fires more intense and dangerous, but it isn’t the only factor: Federal data and various independent studies show that around 80% of all wildfires in the country are caused by humans, making Smokey’s message more relevant than ever.
Newsflash for September 6, 2024
Dragons and Sharks on a Beach Near You: The Story of the Great Lego Spill: Nearly five million Lego pieces plunged into the sea in 1997. The pieces are still showing up — on England’s coast, in Ireland, Belgium, France and possibly at the beach near you. The Lego pieces were packed in a shipping container when a rogue wave hit the Tokio Express, a cargo ship hauling the toys and other goods.The ship, which had been traveling to New York from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, nearly capsized, and it lost all 62 of its shipping containers — an event known as the Great Lego Spill.
Newsflash for July 9, 2024
Millions of tons of fireworks are set off each year to mark Independence Day in the United States, causing air pollution to spike. Should we be worried?