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Last Tuesday night, I couldn’t take my eyes off Chris Wallace’s haplessly bad moderating, Joe Biden’s timidity, and Donald Trump’s Tasmanian Devil routine during the first presidential debate. But, lo and behold, three quarters of an hour into what TV commentators later openly called a “fiasco” or a “sh*tshow,” something happened that hadn’t happened in…

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With storms to the east and wildfires to the west, the climate crisis is currently at the forefront of public consciousness. But aside from dramatic disasters there is another, pernicious threat that comes with a warming climate: diminishing global crop yields. In a new study published in Nature Food, researchers assessed global yields for 18…

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Beach sands around the world are laced with the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA), according to new research that calls attention to a less well-known source of exposure to the hormone-mimicking chemical. Scientists from South Korea and Japan analyzed sand and seawater samples from beaches in 19 countries. They found BPA to be ubiquitous. Substantial amounts of…

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When Fox News announced the lineup of topics for the upcoming presidential debate, climate change and environmental justice were nowhere to be seen. Among the many lamentable things about that is that moderator Chris Wallace, who is scheduled for tonight’s debate, has shown that he is fully capable of asking sharp questions on the subject.…

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The Obama administration directed the EPA to focus on climate-related threats. Now, the Trump administration refuses to even use the word.

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It’s always a challenge to find good news on the climate and environment beat. And we all desperately need a little more of the upbeat stuff right now. So I apologize in advance for the following. It’s hard to ignore the looming mountain of plastics problems. Plastic pollution has been hiding in plain sight as…

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Decades ago several bird species in the Great Lakes—including the iconic bald eagle—faced an uncertain future because toxic chemicals were threatening their populations. While several bans and policies have offered some protection, the same chemicals threatening these birds 60 years ago continue to accumulate in their bodies—and new chemical threats are adding to their toxic…

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The coronavirus has changed just about every routine in our lives, cleaning and disinfecting now among them. The rational fear of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) spread has led to an enormous growth in the creation and use of a multitude of products that we use to wipe, spray, and fog, particularly where we eat, sleep, commute, shop…

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Last week, we gave you a curricular list of some of the most important American environmental books of the late 20th Century. Readers pointed out egregious omissions like Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, posthumously published in 1949, and Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature (1999). Here are more from the early 21st Century: City…

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This investigation is a cross-border collaboration between The Narwhal and Environmental Health News. Workers at a steel plant on the Canada-U.S. border are being exposed to lethal, cancer-causing chemicals “with the full knowledge of the employer,” Algoma Steel, according to complaints obtained by The Narwhal and Environmental Health News through a freedom of information request.…

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