Commentary | Efficiency Vermont’s Peter Walke: Efficiency is our first, best tool for lower energy bills

Vermonters feel it every time we get an energy bill or fill up at the pump—costs are high and unpredictable. Global markets swing wildly, storms knock out power, and heating our homes in the winter takes a bigger bite out of our paychecks than it...

Communities facing PFAS pollution ask lawmakers to listen

Wisconsin communities affected by "forever chemicals" await legislative action on a bill to utilize a $125 million PFAS trust fund. Debate continues over proposed legislation, with disagreements between Gov. Tony Evers and Republican lawmakers on...

Why rural Coloradans feel ignored − a resentment as old as America itself

Many rural Coloradans, especially in agricultural communities, feel looked down on by their urban counterparts. One cattle rancher I spoke to put it plainly. “It’s an attitude … we are the idiots … we are the dumb farmers … we don’t really...

Artist covers sculpture in plastics as sign for delegates at pollution summit

As nations began a second week of negotiations on Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United Nations office. Delegates to the treaty talks pass by the...

Mobilising trade to curb plastic pollution

The United Nations says trade should be part of the solution – and not part of the problem – as it negotiates a global treaty that would include bans and restrictions on toxic plastic additives in textiles and other products. In the works since...

How to Grow More Food with Fewer Resources?

Newswise — Global agriculture is facing a dual challenge: ensuring food security for a growing population while reducing the environmental costs associated with production. As a major agricultural country, China has long relied on a...

Career Opportunities for Legal Professionals with Financial Education Await Not Only in Lithuania, but Also in Europe

Legal knowledge alone is no longer enough for today's lawyer. According to Dr. Paulius Astromskis, associate professor at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), the rapidly expanding FinTech sector in Lithuania requires experienced professionals with...

AI-powered robot to combat plastic pollution created by KZN pupils, selected for Stockholm Junior Water Prize

Two KwaZulu-Natal pupils, Snazo Nzama and Elihle Msomi from Adams College, have put their school and province on the map with their autonomous, AI-powered aquatic robot innovation, the AquaCrusader, which collects microplastics and nanoplastics...

Four days left for global plastic pollution treaty

GENEVA Countries remained at loggerheads on Monday over how to tackle plastic pollution, with only four days left to craft a landmark global treaty on reining in the ever-growing scourge. While plastic has transformed modern life, plastic...

Gadkari Unveils Kirloskar Oil Engines’s New Ethanol and Isobutanol Engines

Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd. (KOEL) has unveiled its Ethanol and Isobutanol engine technology. The launch was officiated by Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, highlighting the government’s push for alternative fuel...

Artist drowns sculpture in plastic waste in front of the UN during plastic pollution treaty talks

GENEVA (AP) — As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United Nations office. Delegates to the treaty talks...

Talks are ongoing at the UN to try to craft a treaty on dealing with plastic pollution

SA reaffirms support for global treaty to tackle plastic pollution

In response, South Africa has moved to ban plastic microbeads. Draft regulations have been signed and are set to be published for public comment. George reaffirmed South Africa’s strong support for urgent and coordinated international action to...

AI helps Texas A&M researchers understand weather-induced pollution

Texas A&M University last Thursday announced that some of its researchers are using artificial intelligence to track pollution caused by accidental chemical emissions following natural events, like severe weather. A recent paper shows that better...

EGA to deliver first-ever CelestiAL-R billets to Japanese manufacturer

Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates and the world’s biggest ‘premium aluminium’ producer, today announced an agreement to supply of CelestiAL-R billets to Sankyo Tateyama, the leading Japanese...

Plan to extend Queensland coalmine would bulldoze ‘critical’ koala habitat

Habitat for threatened koalas that are part of a population described by one expert as nationally significant would be bulldozed under plans to extend a Queensland coalmine. The campaign group Lock the Gate used drones with thermal imaging cameras...

‘Huge Lack of Consideration’: Can We Reverse Australia’s Plastic Pollution Before It’s Too Late?

A cocaine baggie. A toilet brush. A replica of the deadly Squid Game doll. A drone. A glass bottle from hundreds of years ago. It’s not, as you might envision, the ingredients for some kind of unhinged drinking game. Instead, these are all items...

PepsiCo Plastic Pollution Lawsuit Dismissed, But New Suits Push Accountability

The Escalating Battle Over Corporate Plastic Waste In a move that underscores the growing scrutiny on corporate environmental practices, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against PepsiCo in November 2023,...

Looking Back — Aug. 14, 2025

Aug. 14, 2015 — President Barack Obama says he will use his upcoming trip to the Arctic region to press world leaders to do more to fight climate change. Obama plans to travel to Alaska in late August. He’ll speak at a global Arctic leadership...

Trees have a microbiome inside them? This is both obvious and profound

“Inside the wood of each tree on Earth are vast numbers of microorganisms, many of them new to science” Shutterstock/Emvat Mosakovskis A couple of years ago, I spent an enjoyable afternoon in an ancient forest near London learning about old trees...